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THE
SIXTH FESTIVAL OF BEEKEEPING - SUBOTICA 2002.
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first part)
From
the 29th to the 30th of September, beekeepers from
Subotica (Serbia) organized one more beekeeping manifestation the sixth festival
of beekeeping – Subotica 2002. Although this was one of the worst beekeeping
years and the weather was cold 27 exhibitors of beekeeping products and
equipment gathered, 1137 visitors degusted six kinds of honey and about 100
persons participated in a very successful beekeeping conference.
The festival was formally open at 10 o’clock
with the beekeeping anthem sung by “Jovan Milic” elementary school
pupils and with an appropriate address to all the participants by Zivoslav
Stojanovic, the president of the association and Jozef Agardi, the
secretary (in Hungarian). After that, the participants were welcomed by
Mr. Marko Stanojevic, the vice president of SPOS and Mr. Ferenc Sepesi,
the president of the beekeepers’ association in Segedin. A speech was
also given by Mr. Sasa Vucinic the vice president of township council
which was the sponsor of the exhibition.
As
usually, this year beekeeping awards were granted to the most active
members of the association – Jovan
Zivanovic diploma was given to Jozef Agardi. Pera Brescanski and Antun
Lukic got worthy beekeeper medals.
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Welcome speech by Zivoslav Stojanovic, the
president of the association |
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Welcome
speech by SPOS vice president Marko Stanojević |
Traditional
grant of this year’s honey to Sasa Vucinic the vice president of
township council
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BEEKEEPING CONFERENCE
The
conference took place in beautiful surroundings of Serbian Culture Center
“Sveti Sava” premises, with the following agenda:
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Prof.
Dušan Petrović i Prim. dr Luka Kolarević (Sr. Karlovci) –
Promotion of the reprint edition of the book Serbian
Beekeeper,
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Marko
Stanojević (Belgrade) – Preparing and wintering of bee colonies
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Fritsch
Otto ( Budapest) – The possibilities of exploitation of locust honeyflow
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dr
Stipan Kovačić (Darda - Croatia) – Queen production
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Fritsch Otto, the lecturer from Hungary and
Agardi Jozef simultaneously translating |
Dr Stipan Kovačić’s additional explanations
after the conference was over |
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Prof. Dušan Petrović, the rector of Karlovac
theological college presenting the reprint of Serbian beekeeper from 1893. |
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The conference was very well
visited by beekeepers from Subotica, and also by the beekeepers from Sombor,
Backa Topola, Jagodina, Velika Plana and other towns. All the lectures were
carefully surveyed although they lasted 4.5 hours and were followed by many
questions and additional explanations. The guest from Croatia (the first
lecturer in this region after 1991) had to answer the greatest number of
questions. He is a great queen breeder, this year he produced 5500 queens in his
800 mini queen rearing boxes. In Croatia beekeepers buy queens from registered
breeders (like dr Kovacic) and they cost only 2.5 €. As a stimulus from the
state a breeder gets 3.5 € per queen. Our state officials could take this idea
into consideration since similar stimulus is given to queen breeders in Hungary.
Text: Živoslav Stojanović
Photos: Karolj Mareček
Translated by Oliver Mihajlović
The
second part
The third part
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