Summary of newsmakers of the previous day – 13.6. 2007

Distillets: Price of foods will raise owing to bad harvest not to bio-spirit

Farmers and owners of distilleries argue about whether price of food will raise owing to admixture of rape oil and spirit in fuels. While food producers and farmers claims that increased demand for these crops will push prices upwards, distillers do not agree. “If prices of some basic agricultural product raise, it will be rather a consequence of variance of harvest, especially owing to weather”, Oldřich Reinberger, a head of the Distilleries Union CR, said. According to him preferably surpluses of harvest should be made into bio-fuels. From September methyl ester of rape oil should be added in rock oil, from January then bio-spirit in petrol.

CR will rather make profit on Union reform of vegetable and fruit growing

A reform in vegetable and fruit growing on which ministers of agriculture of the European Union have agreed brings many positive elements in this sector. According to a spokeswoman of the Ministry of Agriculture, Táňa Králová, a main contribution is unification of a subsidy system and a shift of the branch towards higher competitiveness and market principles. At the same time the tax system is being changed; a shift from grown amount towards subsidies per area happens. An aim of the reform is to draw the sector near market principles and to force producers to plan own production.

State wants easier expropriation

A novel of law should accelerate building of roads and highways. The state could start to build regardless of a possible dispute about a price of the piece of land. A situation when the highway towards Hradec Králové ends in the middle of a field should not repeat. The state has a plan how to clean some suits from out of the way which obstructed to buildings of roads and highways.

Lesy CR has harvested almost 73 % of volume of calamity wood

Five months after a hurricane Kyrill which hit our republic harvest of calamity wood in the Lesy of the Czech Republic (Lesy CR) still continues intensively. To the 13th of June Lesy CR have harvested more than 3,74 mil. m3 of damaged wood. It is about 73 % of volume of calamity wood after the hurricane Kyrill from a half of January. “An estimation of the calamity after local wind incidents in May moves in a summary height of 5,46 mil. m3 (from it 5,1 mil. m3 remained in forests after the hurricane Kyrill). The harvest of calamity runs all over the territory under control of the Lesy of the Czech Republic”, Ing. Jiří Holický, a general director of Lesy CR specifies.