Summary of newsmakers from the previous day 19.9. 2005

To a course of the 52nd World contest in ploughing

On Saturday 17th September afternoon ploughmen from twenty-nine countries, who participated in the 52nd World contest in ploughing organized in the Czech Republic and also in the first time at all in some from former socialistic countries of Europe, finished the last competition cutting. There were representatives of all continents, mostly from Europe, but also from the Northern America, Australia, New Zealand and East-African Kenya. This year’s World contest in ploughing was stigmatized by a strong rain which change a competition stubble field into one big muddy area.

Czech farmers will have to wait for dotations from EU till December

Czech farmers will have to wait for pay-off from direct payments from the EU cash desk till a regular term at the beginning of December. A request of the Czech Minister of Agriculture Petr Zgarba for an earlier pay-off was refused by a comissar Mariann Fisher-Böl today. According to a president of the Agrarian chamber (AK) Jan Veleba the situation of a significant part of AK members is serious. If their don’t get earlier pay-offs of dotations, collapses of agricultural enterprises can happen.

Miroslav Toman: Brusels will not give more agrarian dotations now

According to a state secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture Miroslava Toman Brusels will not be willing to provide the CR with more agrarian dotations. Toman refuses a fine from the EU for excessive reserves. Today in Brusels agrarian ministers of the European twenty will discuss a reform of sugar market. It will cheapen sugar for consumers but will affect farmers and sugar refineries. As always in similar cases the main person in the Czech delegation will be a state secretary Miroslav Toman. He already before the enlargement of the European Union has negotiated condition for Czech farmers.

Third natural monuments of Vysočina is suggest into list Natura

More than a third from 172 protected landscape localities in Vysočina is suggested by experts in an European network of protected localities Natura 2000. The selection has to be approved by the European Commission. All these natural monuments are already registered in the Central list of natural protection of Bohemia. Officers from Vysočina negotiate in these days long-term plans of care for them with land owners. To maintain rare kinds of plants and animals for future generations it is necessary to remove air-raid evergreen woody species and invasive kind of plants, to care for bushes, but also monitor an influence of fish and to watch a regulation of water regime. “It is also necessary to secure for example pasture, cutting of grass, lime treatment and fertilizing”, said a manager of the department of environment Jan Joneš.