Summary of newspapers of the previous days - 10. – 12. 10. 2008

Topolánek did not persuade farmers; they will block roads on Monday

Nor the Premier Mirek Topolánek persuaded embittered farmers so that they would call back Monday´s road blockade. Farmers prepare it because of dissatisfaction with a budget for next year. N or after Friday´s negotiation with the Premier Mirek Topolánek, at which settlement of direct payments for farmers next year was discussed, the Agrarian Chamber (AK) called back a protest action planned for the next week. Farmers prepare two-hour road blockade with heavy farm machines all over the Czech Republic on Monday the 13th of October. Nevertheless, the management of Agrarian Chamber will still discuss the prepared blockade on Friday afternoon.

Bird flue reached Czech borders; it was found in Saxon

Saxon veterinarians revealed a duck infected with the dangerous virus of bird flue H5N1. A centre of the disease spread lies about 15 kilometers from North-Bohemian borders. All 1400 ducks and geese from the infected breeding were slaughtered. According to the agency DPA it is dealt with the first case of occurrence of this infection in Germany this year. The disease was found out on a farm near the town Zhořelec at German-Polish borderland. Meanwhile specialists are not sure according to responsible authorities whether it is dealt with a variant of the virus dangerous for people.

Diagnostics of start of ovulation in sows

An ultrasonic scanner, besides an examination of pregnancy, offers also a possibility to detect start of ovulation after weaning in sows. With the help of this method it is possible to use reserves in fertility of sows which usually stay unused. Theoretically an optimal time section for the insemination is 24 to 12 hours before start of ovulation. This interval results from the necessity of two biological processes – sperms able to fertilize have to meet an egg cell suitable for fertilization in the eallopian tube of a sow.

Crisis impacts also on nature. There will not be money for conservation

According to specialists a consequence of the world financial crisis can be also a lack of money for conservation of nature and a fight with climatic changes. A server NationalGeographic.com writes that during a meeting of the Inte rnational Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) it was agreed in Barcelona. The serious economic crisis which started in the USA will probably reflect itself in priorities of governments for several next years. According to Alejandr Nadal, who sits in a work group of IUCN for macroeconomics and environment, conservation of nature will be shifted backward.