Summary of newspapers of the previous day - 28.4.2010

ODS wants to sell half of state land to farmers who use it

Civic democrats plan by the year 2014 to sell 50 percents of state land to farmers who use it. Settlement of ownership relations to land is considered by ODS as a priority of its program for the country. A vice-chairman of ODS and a former Minister of Agriculture Petr Gandalovič said it at a press conference today. Owing to the settlement of ownership relations in agriculture, ODS wants to enforce an amendment of act on sale of state land; it should make easier a transfer of property to farmers who manage on it. According to Gandalovič, the state should at the same time ensure farmers advantageous conditions for hire purchase of land.

How composts originates in Prague and what happens with bio-waste

Do you have a garden in Prague and you do not know what to do with biological waste? There are two possibilities - either you have own composts, or you give the waste in a special container that is regularly carried out. From the content a quality compost is later produced which will be returned again in gardens. “Bio-waste is biologically decomposable waste from a garden, for example leaves, branches, grass, soil, but also vegetable, fruits, peelings. Dead animals, bones and meat, and heat-treated products do not belong there. Gastro-waste from restaurants is beyond rules of biological waste”, Jan Marisko, a business director of a company Pražské služby (Prague services) explained.

Mistake in law: firms cut however they like

Firms can cut trees with a trunk with girth up to 80 cm. It is dealt with most trees growing outside forests, ecologists are angry. When a supermarket network Lidl cut around their supermarkets trees recently so that they would not be in the view of the shop, it had to plant out ten times more trees than it had cut. Otherwise it would have to pay many-million fines. Currently, it would come off with impunity to Lidl. From December last year, an amendment of law on conservation of nature is in force which enables firms to cut trees on their parcel even without permission of a town or a municipality.

Farmer markets will be in center of Kladno every Friday

Kladno wants to organize farmer markets in the town center every Friday. There farmers would sell fruits, vegetable, cheeses, sausages and other production. The markets should become an alternative to the supply of hypermarkets and to vitalize the town center. A chief magistrate Dan Jiránek (ODS) said it to journalists. He does not hide that the council house prepossessed with success of similar events in other towns, for example in Prague where farmer markets are popular in the public. In Kladno they will take place from May at the Starosty Pavla square on area of 440 square meters.