FESTIVAL OF GREEK HONEY AND BEE PRODUCTS - CONFERENCE OF APICULTURE

FESTIVAL OF GREEK HONEY AND BEE PRODUCTS - CONFERENCE OF APICULTURE

14th - 16th December 2007
Stadium of Peace & Friendship
Faliro

The European Organisation for Strategic Planning, in collaboration with the Faculty of Agriculture of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki - Apiculture Laboratory and the Hellenic Scientific Company of Apiculture-Sericulture, with the opportunity of the Festival of Greek Honey and Bee Products, held by the Regional Development Network, organised from 14th to 16th December 2007 at the Peace and Friendship Stadium, a special conference of Apiculture. The three-day conference was mainly concerned with the following subjects:

Quality of Greek honey
Safety of Greek honey
Identity of Greek honey
Greek Apiculture
Alternative methods of treatment for American foulbrood and Nosema
Biological Apiculture and its Perspectives
Honey trade
Utilisation of the regulation 797/04 for apiculture
Legislation and regulations for apiculture
Apiculture on the internet
Cooperative Organisations of Apiculturists - The organisation, their provision and their perspectives
National Inter-professional Organisation for Honey - Its action and offer
New technologies in apiculture (inventions, patents, etc.). System for detecting stolen bees.
The bee's provision to pollination
Possibilities of improvement to the bee flora
Apiculture of yesterday and of today
Efforts for improvement of the Greek bee race
The honey-making insects of Greece

Program:

FRIDAY 14th DECEMBER
Room "Melina Merkouri"
12.30-12.50: "Forest fires. Problems and restoration of the bee flora after the fires"
Pavlos Konstantinidis, Alternate Researcher of National Agricultural Research Foundation (NAGREF)
12.55-13.10:"Measures of restoration of fire damages. Enhancement of apiculture in the burned areas"
Paschalis Charizanis, Alternate Professor, Laboratory of Sericulture and Apiculture, Agricultural University of Athens
13.10-13.30: "Varroa acariasis"
Nikos Pappas, Editor of "Melissokomiki Epitheorisi"
13.35-13.45: "Nosema"
Andreas Thrasyvoulou, Professor, Faculty of Agriculture, Laboratory of Apiculture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, President of the Hellenic Scientific Company of Apiculture-Sericulture
13.50-14.00: "American Foulbrood"
Georgios Goras, PhD Candidate Laboratory of Apiculture, Faculty of Agriculture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
14.05-14.15: "New threats to apiculture"
Paschalis Charizanis, Alternate Professor, Laboratory of Sericulture and Apiculture, Agricultural University of Athens
14.20-14.50: Break
14.50-15.00: "Physicochemical attributes - Honey characteristics"
Chrysoula Tananaki, Dr. in Apiculture, Laboratory of Apiculture, Faculty of Agriculture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
15.05-15.15: "Safety of product"
Emmanouil Karazafiris, PhD Candidate, Laboratory of Apiculture, Faculty of Agriculture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
15.20-15.30: "Quality of honey"
Iosif Manikis, Chemist , President of the National Inter-professional Organisation of Honey and Other Beehive Products
15.35-15.55: "Legislation in force for the honey and the practice of apiculture"
Iosif Manikis, Chemist, President of the National Inter-professional Organisation of Honey and Other Beehive Products
Georgios Pittas, Economist, Vice-president of the National Inter-professional Organisation of Honey and Other Beehive Products
16.00-16.10: "Detection of stolen hives"
Solomos Dimitriou, Electronics Engineer, Laboratory of Apiculture, Faculty of Agriculture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
16.15-16.25:"Modern means for production and collection of the royal jelly"
Father Evaggelos Karakasis, Agronomist, Apiculturist, Priest
16.25-16.55: Break
17.00-17.40: Field subjects
National Inter-professional Organisation of Honey and Other Beehive Products, Iosif Manikis, Chemist, President of the National Inter-professional Organisation of Honey and Other Beehive Products
Federation of Greek Beekeepers' Associations (OMSE), Pavlos Kabouris, Member of the Board of Directors of OMSE
Consortium of Apiculture Cooperatives of Greece, Stylianos Ikonomou, President of the Consortium of Apiculture Cooperatives of Greece
Ministry of Rural Development and Food, Dimitrios Theocharis, Agronomist, Head of the Apiculture - Sericulture Department, Ministry of Rural Development and Food
18.00 Inauguration by the Minister of Rural Development and Food, Mr. Al. Kondo

SATURDAY 15 DECEMBER
Room B
10.00-14.00
Briefing for the consumer and the apiculturist ROOM B - Open discussion on the following subjects:
a) "Marchalina hellenica - sooty mould of pines, Myth and Reality"
Coordinates Sofia Gounari, Agronomist PhD, Veterinary Research Institute of Athens NAGREF

Speakers:
"The treatment of the insect "Marchalina hellenica" and its consequences"
Panos V.Petrakis, Entomologist, Researcher of the Institute of Forest - Mediterranean Ecosystems, NAGREF
"Marchalina hellenica, sooty mould of pines, Myth and Reality"
Nikolopoulou- Stamati, Alternate Professor of the Faculty of Medicine, National University of Athens
"Marchallina hellenica gen:The insect that causes sooty mould of pines"
Dr. Konstantinos Souliotis, Benakis Phytopathological Institute
"Objective treatment of a reality"
Pavlos Batsios, Environmental Engineer, Collaborator of the Philodassiki Enosi Athinon
"How apiculturists will protect "Marchalina hellenica" from the industry exploiting the protection of the environment "
Pavlos Konstantinidis, Alternate Researcher of NAGREF
b) "Biological Apiculture, Safety of bee products"
Coordinates: Andreas Thrasyvoulou, Professor, Faculty of Agriculture, Laboratory of Apiculture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, President of the Hellenic Scientific Company of Apiculture-Sericulture
Speakers:
"Certification of the Biological Apicultural Products The importance of the Certification for the Apicultural Products"
Panagiotis Papadopoulos, Agronomist M.Sc, Responsible of Quality Management, QWays - Quality courses
"Biological Apiculture"
Elena Tzortzaki, Agronomist - Zootechnist M.Sc, Biological Products of Animal Origin Department, Ministry of Rural Development and Food
"Biological Certification"
Kostas Minachilis, Agronomist, DIO, Organisation for Control and Certification of Biological Products
"Certification of Apicultural Biological Products"
Georgios Kouklakis, Agronomist, Responsible of the South Greece Office, A-CERT, European Organization for Certification
"Safety of Beehive Products"
Emmanouil Karazafiris, PhD Candidate in Apiculture, Laboratory of Apiculture, Faculty of Agriculture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

SUNDAY 16 DECEMBER
Room B
11.00-13.00 Briefing of the consumer and the apiculturist - Open discussion on the following subjects:
a) "Nutritional and therapeutic action of the bee products - bee therapy. Uses - Recipes"
Coordinates: Paschalis Charizanis, Alternate Professor, Laboratory of Sericulture and Apiculture, Agricultural University of Athens
Speakers:
"The bee products in nutrition"
Evaggelos Zoubaneas, Dietician, Nutritionist
"Honey, Propolis and Royal Jelly: powerful weapons of the natural pharmacology quiver, friendly and useful to man"
Nikolaos Kondylis, General Family Physician, Physician of Undersea Medicine
b) "The present and the future of apicultural field. Diachrony and Necessity of Apiculture, as a field of agricultural production in Greece"
Coordinates: Iosif Manikis, Chemist, President of the National Inter-professional Organisation of Honey and Other Products of the Hive
Speakers:
Georgios Pittas, Economist, Vice-president of the National Inter-professional Organisation of Honey and Other Products of the Hive
Athanasios Bikos, Agronomist, Ministry of Rural Development and Food