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Antonio Gilberto Paz de los Santos, apiculture technical support officer from the coop, holds a handful of 'Italian' bees in his unprotected hands. The careful management of the queen bees in the area has eliminated the dangerous and defensive africanised bees. Cooperativa de producción integral apicultores del sur occidental RL, COPIASURO, is a Fairtrade-certified honey producer based in El Sitio, Catarina, San Marcos, Guatemala. COPIASURO collects and markets honey from apiaries from small-scale beekeepers in the San Marcos, Quetzaltenango, Huehuetenango and Alta Verapaz regions, that covers highlands and lowlands.
- Copyright
- ©2012 Sean Hawkey, all rights reserved
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- 4368x2912 / 4.9MB
- Keywords
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Guatemala, abeja, apicultor, apiculturalist, apiculture, apis, bee, beekeeper, beekeeping, bees, hand, honey, veil
- Contained in galleries
- showcase, Guatemala: Fairtrade

