Summary of newspapers of the previous day – 14. 12. 2009

Springboard waggles

A special time is here again after a year. The advent is here and the nicest holidays of year, Christmas, come. The time when human hearts open and people are closer to themselves; also the time when we start to balance the year ending in several days and after it we will start already the tenth year of third millennium. How everything fly. What the year 2009 was? Surely, we will agree that very difficult. Czech agriculture was for the first time put to hard trial of impacts of the economic crisis. A jump fall in prices of main market commodities happened while input prices decreased far slower. Demand decreased and political instability came.

Carrot can be bought in vending machine as coca-cola

We come to a vending machine, drop in several coins and for example cucumbers instead of coca-cola fall out. You read right, really cucumbers. A firm which attracted attention with its vending machines for milk is going to enlarge sphere of action. It wants to offer farmers a way to get as biggest amount of its products as possible directly to a consumer, without supermarkets and other mediators. This information will be published in Tuesday´s issue of special journal for farmers Agrobase. “Vending machines can sell anything that gets in them. So, there is no problem to sell not only vegetable and fruit but also for example meat and eggs in them”.

Attitude of MZe towards definition of crime poaching in new criminal code

Speculation that a new criminal code with effect from 1.1.2010 will make difficult penalization of poaching and will lead to its increase started to appear in last days. At the same time it was adverted to many accompanying problems which the new criminal code does not bring but vice versa solves. The new criminal code specifies and governs the law diction with differentiation of a crime and an offence in poaching. Simultaneously it differentiates this crime in a stadium of attempt (a preparation) or perpetration. So, it is not true that the new criminal law would not penalize the preparation of this crime.

World wood prices increased by 60 percent this year, CR does not copy this development

Wood prices on Chicago CME Group, the biggest derivative stock market on the world, increaeed roghly by 60 percents over the first eleven month this year. In an interview for Mediafax it was confirmed by a product manager of analytical company Colosseum, Robert Hluchník, on Wednesday.