Summary of newsmakers from the previous day 1.9. 2005

Exhibition Země Živitelka was visited the same as last year by 110 111 people

Roughly 110 000 people visited the last year's 32nd year of the international agri-fair Země Živitelka, gates of which was closed this afternoon. The same amount of people as the last year found the way to the fairground in České Budějovice. The action confirmed a position of the most visited exhibition in the Czech Republic, said a head of marketing and propagation of the fairground Lenka Chrástová. The most visitors passed through turn-stiles on Saturday when organizers counted 22 500 people. This year's agri-salon attracted most of exporters and producers of agricultural technology, which can be seen in South-Bohemian metropolis only once in two years. It takes turns with TechAgro from Brno.

Crop is disillusion for farmers

What we were afraid of is here. It is now said by many West-Bohemia farmers - the rainy and cold weather caused a worse quality of crop.

Pilsen. A chairman of Agrarian chamber in Domažlice Miloš Šnajdr is skeptical. „Prices which farmers will get will be very low due to the weather.“ According to Šnajdr buy-out prices now offer to farmers about two thousand crowns for a ton of feeding wheat. „Last year it was 2,6 thousand crowns“, Šnajdr compares. At the same time farmers claim that a break-even point is about 2,2 to 2,3 thousand crowns. “So, farmers undergo“, affirm the chairman of the Agrarian chamber in Domažlice.

Bio-ethanol: viable biological fuel?

A search for alternatives to fossil fuels for transport means still continues. One of them - ethanol - has a long history. It can be produced from many resources, including sugars and starches originated from plants as e.g. sugar-cane, corn and wheat. Ken Gilbert evaluates in this paper ethanol prospects from many view of fuels and their implications for energy, agriculture and fertilizers.

Dangerous dead trees are cut in Šumava

Tourists will feel more secure on some trails in Šumava. The park administration cuts died trees which stood up to now along trails and there was a threat of their fall. Now the trails are divided into several categories including experience routes where nature is let completely to its wild life and an entrance is at one's own risk. For example foresters began to remove all died trees around Stifter's rout upon Plešné lake. At the same time also a path will stay here where people will be allowed to go also only at their own risk.