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           The  Ministry  of  Agriculture,  Ru-
           ral Transformation, Forestry and
           Fisheries  in  collaboration  with
           the  St.  Vincent  and  the  Grena-
           dines  Beekeepers  Association

           (SVGBA)  and  the  Inter-American
           Institute  for  Corporation  on  Agri-
           culture  (IICA)  hosted  a  two-day
           training workshop to introduce the
           Perone Hive technology in St. Vin-
           cent and the Grenadines.                 Perone Hive

           The  new  technology  will  create
           more  space  for  the  Bees  to  in-  Mr.  Williams  indicated  that  in-
           habit  and  reduce  less  human      troducing  this  new  technology
           intervention.  The  objectives  of   will allow Beekeepers to adopt
                                                and  adapt  a  more  sustainable
                                                production method in the Bee-
             To     reduce     Beeswax        keeping Industry. He also men-
               importation                      tioned that this method reverts

             Establish  40%  Perone                                               Locally produced honey
               hives           among
               domesticated  colonies  in       to  a  more  traditional  way  of   the  importation  of  Beeswax
               St.  Vincent  and  the           Beekeeping.                         in  St.  Vincent  and  the
               Grenadines.                                                          Grenadines.
             Promote  the  increase  of       Mr. Michael Dalton, Technical
               local     Beeswax       and      Specialist,  IICA,  informed  the   The  training  and  evaluation
               premium            honey         gathering of the long associa-      of this project consists of five
               production.                      tion  between  IICA  and  the       different  phases  that  will
             Upgrade  the  Perone  hive       SVGBA  over  the  years  and        take  place  over  the next  six
                                                wishes  to  continue  the  part-    months  period.  The  work-
               technology  with  further        nership  in  the  future  through   shop  ended  successfully
                                                the  introduction  of  new  tech-   with  the  participation  of  ap-
               innovation  to  improve
                                                nology,  providing  resources       proximately  28  persons  with
               production             and                                           96%  of  the  participants  ac-
                                                Ms.  Beverly  Reddock,  Presi-      cepting new technology.
            The  workshop  was  facilitated     dent of the SVGBA urged the
            by  Agricultural  Instructor,  Mr.   participants  to  practice  and
            Allan  Williams  as  a  result  of   learn all new technology that
            training he received in St. Lu-     is  available  and  listed  some
            cia in November 2016.               of  the  benefits  of  this  new
                                                technology  which  includes

                                                improving  our  natural  source
                                                of honey and the reduction of
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