Dear Friends, @ s @ s
We are approaching the end of this year and there are still some activities that should be done to finalize the consolidation of the chain of Bees and Beekeeping in Colombia. During Beekeepers Meeting had the opportunity Neiva to interact with other people and organizations that had approached the process, so that and most known players in the chain of activities are being pursued, and only need to engage those who have not done so far.
From the links (links) to this page (blue and green bar, bottom right) can find information on the concepts of production chains in Colombia policy, process files and CPAA FOLDING can download a summary of the information and can print and share with others.
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important activities that are underway include:
REGISTRATION OF GROUPS AND ORGANIZATIONS IN THE CHAIN \u200b\u200b
currently requires the support of all groups in the chain to achieve shaping an information system that allows us to build clear statistics to support decision making. We have made available to all a ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION FORM ORGANIZATIONS , which must be completed and submitted before December 15, 2006. This form is in Excel format and can be downloaded to your computer, filled out directly in the file, and emailed to cadena.abejas @ minagricultura.gov.co and consider organizing
jmrossol@yahoo.com all groups that are part of the chain or that relate to her, associations, cooperatives, companies, NGOs, institutions and public or private entities, research groups, transporters, input suppliers or services, etc ... The idea is to get a form for each organization (not per person), avoiding double registrations.
With the data provided by you will have a useful information for further understanding the functioning of the chain nationally and regionally, and to support the task of building strategic plans that the Regional Committees of the chain are ahead.
information on prices, production, demand and product movement in the country and within regions is key to competitive strategy to draw the chain. This strategy will be raised in the Competitiveness Agreement, which will be discussed from a draft that will introduce early next year. The information collected in the registration help supplement national diagnostic data and other sources.
By registering, you will also have a map of the main groups that make up the chain and will participate in the first round of discussion of the Competitiveness Agreement.
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CORE STRENGTHENING REGIONAL CHAIN \u200b\u200b
so far have established Regional Committees of the CPAA in Cauca, Sucre, Boyacá and soon we hope to coordinate with other groups that have led this initiative, the formation of nuclei Coffee (15 November), Ontario (November 21), Magdalena (December 4) and Santander (15 December). The idea is that over the next year leading groups missing regions begin to coordinate activities to articulate the different groups related to bees and beekeeping.
These committees will support the development and consolidation of the chain coordinating their efforts to achieve a concerted and planned development of beekeeping in each region, representing the National Council of Chain, once it is set up.
CALL FOR RESEARCH DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Chain Beekeeping Bees and won an important strategic area for its future: to participate in the call that the Ministry of Agriculture opened for the development of research projects. This call is for the next 4 years and have the opportunity to access the resources of funds in bankruptcy, presenting projects that meet the demands that were set by many of you during the workshops Research Agendas, which developed in some departments in 2005 and 2006.
invite you to contact the universities and research groups in their region and communicate promptly with the Technical Secretariat and we coordinated proposals that respond to major problems of our range. To do this we are planning a meeting on Dec. 7, in which we will define the programs and projects that will be presented.
In this call is an essential requirement to establish partnerships between research groups and organizations of the links in the chain, so the coordination of efforts is essential to win approval projects.
As you can see, we still have a year-end busy. Bees and beekeeping are going through an important juncture in the country and there are many development opportunities for those who are part of it. But to take advantage of these circumstances it is necessary that we manage to establish a strong, cohesive as a swarm, which has the ability to respond in a coordinated manner to new challenges before us.
The signing of competitiveness will allow us to establish our "road map" forward, and will allow us to be considered in different instances. Achieving this agreement is our main challenge at the beginning of 2007 and to concretely achieve need to work efficiently coordinated. The only obstacle will be that we set ourselves.
