Apícola Martínez, Curicó Chile

Welcome to ours company

    Apícola Martinez is a new and dynamic company; it was initiated in Curicó city, fruit farming heart of the Maule area in Chile.
    Our mission is provide the national and international market, with products and services bee keep under management systems, capable of ensuring the quality and service of the product by the customer, providing them guarantee of quality in the products and efficiency in the provided services.
    We are working based on economies of scale, on the searching the new national and international markets.
    The realized management has generated us great satisfactions, actually the Company is a big reference in the country, receiving visits from beekeepers exporters and manufacturers of bee keep, farmers consumers and manufacturers of beekeeping supplies of different countries of America, Asia and Europe.
    On the other side, our company receive from the end of 2006, an important support of the development of corporation of the production (CORFO), through associative plan of development (PROFO) of national and international honey marketing, the time limit of executing is five years, which it has joined its partners in an empowerment of its commercial activities.

Pollination

Our primary mission is to provide an excellent service in pollinated in orchards, besides we are pollinating Almond , plum, cherry, apple, pear and kiwi fruits and seedbeds, placing to our company among the most important of Chile, to realize around 22.000 for season. In addition possess us knowledge alliances with U.E and New Zealand companies, allowing to improve techniques in management of assistances of this service.
Keeping our customers our company comply with quality standards, constantly monitored. Our hives are formed by new queens of our own hatcheries, fast and a good development of breeding, ensuring the continue demand for pollen.
To the genetic selection, we are Powering the beehives with a management of incentives, feeding and spaces, to make the most of highest the abilities, because we know that successful of the pollination is not only carrying the beehives, but measure the real results as fruit quality.

Hatchery Bee

We know that a good queen is the fundamental basis of a productive beehive with an adaptation to pollination. That is due to; we are conducting a genetic selection program, which it has as guarantee productives and resistant to diseases queens.
Having the quantity and quality of queen at time and manner, lead us to manage our own hatchery. Our production capacity are 10,000 queens for season by allowing supply and meet with various alliances made with beekeepers who works joined us.

Honey

Our honey recognized in the region and the country is being exported 100%, mainly U.S. and Germany. This is produced from honey bees from the nectar of flowers or secretions from of living parts of plants.
Properties of Honey
The honey has many therapeutic properties as nutritious. Some of them are:
·It facilitates digestion and assimilation of other foods
·In children facilitates assimilation of calcium and magnesium.
·It has more power sweetener that sugar
·improving food preservation.
·It is softly laxative (regularized intestinal operation)
·It is antihemorragic, antianemic, antiseptic, antitoxic.
·It improves physical performance, especially in athletes
·It is used to pharyngitis , laryngitis, rhinitis, flu treatment, minor depressives states, ulcers, gastritis, burns, among others.
·It stimulates the formation of red blood globule due to the presence of folic acid.
·It stimulates the formation of antibodies

Pollen

    The bee pollen is a natural source of health. According to experts pollen is the most nutritious food to be found in nature. The bee pollen contains high levels of proteins and carbohydrates, amino acids, enzymes, minerals (zinc), vitamins (A and B) and trace elements. In addition to the pollen contains over 300 essential substances to the cellular function, and skeletal muscle.

    Consumption of pollen
    Daily consumption of pollen helps to strengthen resistance to disease, prevent and combat stress, neurosis, hair loss, anemia, gastric ulcers, irritable colon and diabetes.
    The pollen also helps us to improve the appetite, normalize digestion, improve vision, strengthen nails, regularize blood pressure, strengthen the heart, increase vital energy, combat atherosclerosis and stimulate the mental faculties and intellectuals.