When the “venom” rises in the columns, the guilds of Gildardo Urrego go down and retire to retire the dead monkeys. It is the second time that a lost person is killed, and I suspect that there are agronomics that are driving the campo boom in Colombia.
Hundreds of cases have disappeared in the last few years in Quindío, a department of the Colombian West, where the official investigations are underway at Fipronil, a pesticide killed in Europe and used restricted in the United States and China.
Further north, in the Department of Antioquia, Urrego has a flour market around maraca cultivars. And in 2019, 10 de sus offered 19 enjambres.
“Quizá no han hecho un buen manejo de los agroquímicos”, sostiene este apicultor de 38 años.
This year, fueron cuatro las colmenas que desaparecieron, cada una albergaba unas 50.000 abejas. In the last decade apocalyptic states of the United States, Canada, Uruguay, France, Russia, Australia, among others, he was sentenced to death by aborigines by the agrotoxic.
Urrego does not identify the pesticide that killed the birds, but at 280 kilometers per hour, in Quindío, Abdón Salazar lived the calculation of the deaths in his company Apícola de Oro, and signaled to fipronil as the venous responsible.
“In the last two years we can calculate more than 80 million dead birds”, lamenting this apicultor, meanwhile thirteen columns vibrate on his shoulders.
Other apocalypse such as he had to remove mountains of dead insects in this zone, around the enclosures, reverence the aguacate and citrus plantations, in one of the most megadiversal landscapes of the planet.
Toxic drug
The fipronil is highly toxic to the monkeys. Its use in maize and willow cultivars -which attracts these insects- was banned in 2013 by the European Union (EU), which also decided not to renew the licenses for its employees in other plantations.
En Quindío the destruction of the hills coincides with the expansion of the monocultivos, assigns Faber Sabogal, president of Asoproabejas, the organization that reunites the apocalypse.
Following the local government, between 2016 and 2019 five multinational companies will buy large extensions of land in the second largest department of Colombia to unite in the aguacatero boom.
The exports will rise from 1.7 tons in 2014 to 44.5 tons in 2019. In the principles of 2021, the governing celebrity has turned into the mayor of Europe’s aguacators.
Because of the camps, these cultivations are very vulnerable to the plagues and require intense smoking. So, the abbots are roaring with fipronil meander vuelan through the world.
“They train this venue to the colmena and eat it completely to the rest,” Salazar said.
Veda in discussion
Los apicultores de Asoproabejas het registered in video decades of deaths in various regions, mainly in the west of Colombia. Segun ellos, the loser and most of his industry, then las abejas son un un polinizador deurslaggewend para la reproduction de muchas plantas silvestres y de un tercio de las agecholas.
Studies recaptured by the UE have alerted the declining population of animals at the global level.
In 2020, the Instituto Colombiano Agropecuario (ICA) received a notification of 256 envenenamientos en colmenas solo en Quindío. Diez millones de abejas murieron. The ICA has demonstrated in six affected countries.
The investigations “have shown that the fipronil molecule is one of the causes of mortality”, details Jorge García, regional manager of ICA, to the AFP.
García sends an “alert” to the ICA offices in Bogotá and recently the Institute is working on a standard for “the suspension of the molecule”. Mientras, el fipronil se sigue commercializingo.
Returning the product as suicidal in Europe “has not been possible because the agrochemicals companies have been affected economically”, Salazar explains.
The manufacturers defended themselves. A fipronil oath implies “a very negative situation for the productive structure” of the 33 cultivars used by its “efficiency”, advises María Latorre, spokeswoman for the agrochemical committee in Colombia.
Although it is not known that the fipronil is given to the abbots, “the body and the good ones” a “revision” of its use “in the cultivars it has incidents”.
Fernando Montoya, of the Colombian Horticultural Association, said the chemical can be replaced by “bio-based products from hongos”, steps for insects and manual operations.
“No satanisar”
The ICA does not have an angle between the expansion of the water crops in the Quindío and the disappearance of columns.
“He tried to say that it’s the culprit of the citrus, of the aguacate or of the coffee, so that no cultivation can be satanized,” said Garcia.
But before the destruction of the houses, la Apícola de Oro, which produces 36 toneladas of flour al año, decidió moverse.
Salindar went to Quindío to the mayor’s part of his abbeys -un 1,200 colmenas- hacia a land recorded at 400 kilometers of alli.
Although now it will salvage its business, reflecting on the advances of the agrotoxic.
“The abbey is a bioindicator. If an abyss dies, what other beneficial insects for the medium (…) are dead?”.