Summary of newsmakers of the previous day – 8.1.2008

Guardian: World gets warmer, trees absorb less CO2

Ability of trees to fix anthropogenic carbon dioxide weakens, the daily Guardian wrote. Scientists found out it by an analysis of data collected over last twenty years from more than thirty localities in cold northern areas. The findings published last week are principal. The more carbon dioxide people emit, the more will end in the atmosphere and it will influence the climate instead of to be safely stored in trees or land. These results can partially explain recent studies which indicated that the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere grows faster than it was expected. If plants absorbed less oxygen in higher temperatures, global warming would accelerate itself, Guardian reports.

Dairy-works decreased purchase of milk

Milk industry enterprises purchased 186 591 thousand liters of milk in total from inland producers in November. So, on the whole the amount was less by 8197 thousand liters of milk than in October. From a count per daily purchase of milk, which was 6219,7 thousand of liters in November (in October 6283,5 thousand liters), and a subsequent comparison it is obvious that the present daily purchase of milk is by 63,8 thousand liters daily less, so by 1,02 per cents than in October. It was Irena Vozková from a department of economics and financing, the Ministry of Agriculture CR who informed on results of the statistical investigation.

Říman: North of Moravia spend little money for ecology

According to the Minister of Industry and Trade, Martin ˙íman, Moravian-Silesian region spends little money for so-called ecological revitalization. It is dealt with programs which were opened by last governments for Moravian-Silesian region and the region Ústí. North Moravia keeps at disposition a sum of 15 billion crowns from which it has spent only a fraction. North of Bohemia can get ten billion crowns. ˙íman said it at a press conference in Ostrava yesterday.

Agricultural will be reputedly profitable this year

We are at the beginning of a possible rennaisance of Czech agriculture, Jan Veleba, the president of Agrarian Chamber (ACH) CR says. In his opinion this year could be better than the last one which was, according to farmers, successful. Agricultural profit over the year 2007 should be about 10 – 15 billion crowns. If a harvest is good in 2008, according to Veleba a result could be even better. Farmers the growing gains ascribe above all to growing takings for commodities whose prices significantly grew last year.