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斯科特霍夫曼布莱克
执行董事,无脊椎动物保护的Xerces协会
蜜蜂和本地蜂下降的原因和补救措施提供了研究经费,是在保护授粉的关键一步。
请花点时间打电话或写信给你的参议员,让他们知道如何重要的授粉,并要求他们:1)支持这项拨款和2)义和团的联系参议员办公室登录到这个重要的信。
义和团参议员已写了一封信 要求农业拨款小组委员会在2010财政年度拨款20万用于授粉的研究项目在2008年农场法案的授权。 这些资金将增加配套管理蜜蜂蜂群衰竭失调(CCD)的重要研究的耕作制度的应变能力和安全,并通过栖息地的保护和最佳管理做法,以促进健康的蜜蜂和原生授粉。
背景
As you may know, the 2008 Farm Bill includes language authorizing $100 million over five years to further our scientific understanding of the essential agricultural services pollinators provide our nation. The letter only seeks to fully fund critical provisions that were recently signed into law through legislative consensus.
Managed and native pollinators, such as honey bees, bumble bees, and other native bees, are needed for the production of over $18 billion (and possibly as much as $27 billion) per year in agricultural products in the US These animals are required for 35 percent of the world's crop production. Yet, total pollinator spending at USDA in the 2008 Fiscal Year accounted for merely 0.01 percent of the agency's budget. Without pollinators, our current yields of alfalfa, almonds, apples, cherries, cranberries, blueberries, kiwifruit, strawberries, melons, squash, peppers, peaches, pears, plums, carrot, onion, and other seed crops, would not be possible.
在2006年后,还不明原因的现象称为蜂群衰竭失调(CCD)的削弱我国已经萎缩蜂蜜蜂群,并强调我们的支持动物授粉粮食生产的复杂系统的相对无知。 这是非常重要的进行研究,以更好地理解和解决这个问题。
Studies in other developed nations have well documented a diminished presence of honey bees and other vital pollinators in interdependent agricultural and ecological systems, but much information is lacking in the US A major conclusion of a comprehensive study by the National Academy of Sciences in 2007 found that for most North American pollinator species, long-term population data are lacking and knowledge of their basic ecology is incomplete.
Funding for pollinator research will protect the health, future, safety, and sustainability of our nation's most nutritional food crops. These funds will ensure that we base our sustainable future in agriculture on a more comprehensive understanding of the science that supports it.
Thank you for your help in this effort.
Read more about the 2008 Farm Bill Benefits to Crop Pollinators >>
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