Summary of newsmakers of the previous day – 17.1.2007

Owners of distilleries enjoy golden age after years

An old proverb saing that if September is warm, fruits and grapes get along well proved itself this year. For example East-Moravian distilleries run fully; moreover in comparison with other years above all quality plum brandy flows from still bodies. “This year the weather was favourable; except August it was ideal”, Ji˙í Novosad from Vsetín claims. He picks up plums from under thirty trees in barrels. Growers are surprised fairly first of all with how much plum brandy from the sour he burn. “For example last year it was misery, more than ten liters of plum brandy per one hundred liters of sour flew only exceptionally. This year’s average is about twelve to fourteen liters. I had to pull out demijons from a cellar which remained empty last year”, Novosad added.

Net foodstuffs will have new label

Products of ecological agriculture, in which one can rely on that they have not been “touched” by any chemicals, are more expensive, however, interest in them increases. Firms which produce foods from Czech eco-farmers’ production are seen still more. The President of Food Chamber Jaroslav Camplík said that the chamber is about to react to growing demand for bio-products which starts to be obvious and it will offer a membership to these firms.

Slovakia does not want to put up with plan of emission permits

Slovakia prepares to attack a way in which the European Commission decides on allotment of numbers of emission permits to particular EU countries. Slovaks don’t like that the Commission asks them to reduce the emission limit in the second stage of the plan. The second stage of a permit scheme starts in 2008 and terminates in 2013. Slovakian Ministry of Environment assumes that a volume of emission which plants in Slovakia can emit in air is insufficient. The Minister Jaroslav Izák said at a press conference that neither the way of setting of quotas is all right

More fruit has cropped

Harvest of fruit in growers’orchards increased last year by 16 percents to 190 955 tons. The increase is given by an extraordinarily low harvest the year before last due to spring frosts in flowerage. In comparison with other last years it is dealt with an average harvest. Martin Ludvík a secretary of the Fruit Grower Union said it at Fruit-Growing Days in Hradec Králové yesterday. The last year year-on-year increase was given first of all by apples harvest of which has grown by 15 percents to 159 171 tons. However, quality of apples was significantly worse due to extremely unbalanced weather. “High July temperatures brought a higher occurrence of sunstroke in some varieties, so a damage of skin by intensive radiation. A moist August caused a big spread of fungal diseases, mainly scab”, Ludvík said. Especially in Northern Bohemia and in Moravia the outplanting was afflicted by hail storm.Source: Agris, 18.01.2007