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Inquiry into the Future Development of the Australian Honey Bee Industry

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Report

On Monday 16 June 2008, the House Standing Committee on Primary Industries and Resources tabled its report on the Inquiry into the Future Development of the Australian Honey Bee Industry, More Than Honey: the future of the Australian honey bee and pollination industries.

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This report is comprised of preliminary pages, 6 chapters and 5 appendices.

More Than Honey: the future of the Australian honey bee and pollination industries

Preliminary pages (PDF 118KB)
Contents, Foreword, Committee Membership, Terms of Reference, List of Abbreviations and List of Recommendations

Chapter 1 (PDF 201KB)
Current and future prospects

Chapter 2 (PDF 168KB)
Bees in Agriculture

Chapter 3 (PDF 238KB)
Resource security

Chapter 4 (PDF 294KB)
Biosecurity

Chapter 5 (PDF 228KB)
Economic and trade issues

Chapter 6 (PDF 256KB)
Research, extension and training

Appendix A (PDF 89KB)
Appendix A – Honeybee R&D Five Year Plan 2007–2012

Appendix B (PDF 54KB)
Appendix B – The Inquiry

Appendix C (PDF 45KB)
Appendix C – List of submissions

Appendix D (PDF 74KB)
Appendix D – List of exhibits

Appendix E (PDF 66KB)
Appendix E – List of public hearings and witnesses