Summary of newsmakers from the previous day 22.9. 2005

Company Vinium started vintage

Wine company Vinium from Velké Pavlovice started vintage. A purchase of about 6000 ton grapes is supposed, so by about a quarter less than in 2004. However, prices for grapes decreased by a half in varieties Veltlínské zelené and Ryzlink vlašský this year - to five crowns per a kilogram for non-contracting partners. Also prices of blue varieties weakened by 12 - 15 CZK per a kilogram.

Vine-growers will not wait to see permission to shoot mynahs

Thousand-head flock of mynahs hammer at vineyeards. However, vine-growers' requests for a permission to shoot them lies till this time on tables of officers. Vine-growers are desperate. They consider the shooting in a combination with an acoustic frightening as the most effective fight against insatiable fledglings which liquidate their crop in vineyards. “We asked for the permission to shoot in July. Department of environment in Bŕeclav gave us an agreement, but we can do nothing. Ornithologists made a protest and a decision should be made now by officers of a regional administration in Brno. However, nothing happens”, says angrily a director of the company Agromorávia in Moravská Nová Ves, Milan Vala. “Mainly that the region supported an outplanting of vineyards in southern Moravia”, he adds.

Sweet filling in glasses can become bitter every moment; honey is difficult to be sold or brings low profit

Shells in shops are full of small and big glass of honey, however, a costumer comes across a Czech one only sporadically. Why? Salesmen prefer to buy abroad where honey is cheaper. Bee-keepers solve the situation by a sale from a yard because they would lose for the offered price. Bee-keeping is beautiful and useful hobby. For a yearly work it brings a reward to a bee-keeper in form of sweet honey and profit to growers in form of a pollination of plants. Still better it would be if bee-keepers could also obtain a better financial return for their effort.

Parliament supported amendment of act on bio-spirit production for fuels

The Parliament advanced a government amendment of act today in a final reading which creates legal conditions for bio-spirit production and mixing of it in fuels. Admixing of bio-ethanol in petrol and oil should decrease the dependency of the Czech Republic on oil export, to contribute in improvement of air and also to bring sale of cereals production. The amendment of act will set among others that distilleries for bio-spirit production will not be allowed to produce or process other kinds of spirits.