Summary of newsmakers from the previous day 11.7. 2005

How to obtain European money for communities, cities and regions?

Several-day training programme of co-ordinators and politicians from town hall of Healthy Cities, communities and region from so-called The school of healthy cities, towns and regions (HCCZ, this association hold an aannual training programme since 2003). Summer school 2005 runs from 12 nd. to 15th. of July in Jihlava city. One of the main subject will be get dotations from European union funds.

Ferkl: People don´t want to work a lot in the forest

Regional inspectorship of Forests in Czech republic based in Teplicich manages in Usti region forest lots about 115 thousands hectares and other 3 thousands hectares lots are water area, special and others. In activity of Regional inspectorship is nine working-plan areas. Function of forest manager by law under contract performs extra for almost 4500 other forest owners on approximate area 6400 hectares of forest. We asked the director of Regional inspectorship ing. Jan Ferkl, how wood specialists remember on recovery of verts.

The European Union funds will be opened to foodstuff producers again first in autumn

Dairy or bakery will be able to seek of European finance. They could not do it, because because Federation of Food and Drink Industries of the Czech republic devolved below Ministry of Industry and Trade last year. The basic foodstuff producers will be able to ask about resources from operational funds of European Union first in autumn or till early in the next year. Available will be till hundreds of CZK. The Federation of Food and Drink Industries of the Czech republic did´t want to allocate money with it, that region of foodstuff producers falls within Ministry of Agriculture cognizance .

Usage of the agricultural fertilizers increased, fall behind forward EU

Usage of the agricultural fertilizers increased last year approximately on 99 kilograms of nutrients per hectare of agricultural land opposite the year before last approximately about 80 kilograms. it results from data of Ministry of Agriculture. "But usage is always roughly half opposite forward countries in EU, where it is 200 and more kilograms per hectare", said Pavel Kovář. Fertilization has positive influence on production volume. According to president of Agrarian Association Jan Veleba is growth in useage of agricultural fertilizers positive, but the difference opposite European fifteen is still huge.