Summary of newsmakers of the previous day – 5.2.2007

M.L.Moran sold ˙eský olej as well as Setuza to firm Campaspol

M.L.Moran sold 100 percent of shares f the company ˙eský olej to the firm Campaspol and together wit it also a control packet of stocks of the company Setuza. We reacted to an attractive offer of Campaspol. A significant stock-holder of this firm is German company Campaspol which deals with bio-oil production. Setuza gots a foreign strategical owner who can help it in further development”, Zden˙k Šmejkal, a vice-chairman of directorship of M.L.Moran reported in a press report today.

According to SMA support for young farmers is insufficient

According to statement of the SMA presidium young farmers should get c. 2 % yearly from 12,6 million Euro, i.e. 357 million crowns, by means of new endowment title Start of activity of young farmers. The aim of this endowment title is to contribute to a generation exchange and to improve age structure of agricultural population. However, SMA claims that rejuvenation will not happen if only about sixty million crowns are allotted yearly for the new program. It would mean support for start of activity of about only fifty young farmers.

KRNAP selected firm for calamity, timer harvesting can start

Processing of wind calamity in forests of the Krkonoše National Park (KRNAP) will fully start on Tuesday. The park administration closed all shortened selective proceedings today and selected firms which will harvest the fallen wood. In earliest days also the enterprise Lesy of the Czech Republic (L˙R) should start harvesting of calamity wood in the region Hradec Králové. ˙TK has founded out in particular subjects that the town Dv˙r Králové nad Labem already processes the calamity.

Great Britain liquidates focus of bird flu; it faces customers in business

The Great Britain continued in killing thousands of pieces of poultry on a farm today where a virus of bird flu H5N1, transmitted to people, occurred in recent days. There was also a disputation whether a reaction to the focus of the disease occurrence had been quick enough. Japan and Russia forbade preventively imports of all British poultry; the Czech Republic is said to not consider it.