Summary of newspapers of the previous day – 11.8. 2011

SZPI caught delivery of jelly sweets from China

Within a check of goods in customs store inspectors of Pilsner inspectorate of SZPI (State Agricultural and Food Inspection) revealed an objectionable food enclosed to a toy Jeep from China. The product with a trade name „Jeep with 8g Jelly bean candy“ consists of a plastic car which has a small packet with sweets in a load space. Analyses showed that the sweets contain excessive amount of dye E110 - synthetic yellow SY.

It is no more essential to cut trees in Šumava; owing to weather wood engraver started to dye itself

Rainy, windy and cold summer passes to administrators of the National Park Šumava. Thanks to the unfavourable weather they can give up cutting of some trees affected with wood engraver. It showed that the insect dies itself. It is destroyed by moulds and fungi. Wood cutters were going to start to cut trees affected with wood engraver in Jezerní hřbet under Poledník - between Prášily and Srní, however, they found out on Wednesday that it is useless. The wood engraver had been already death of moulds and fungi. “It is a virus who attacked maggots of the beetle. Trees are affected and death, of course, nevertheless, it is not necessary to cut them because the beetle will not fly out from them”, a deputy administrator of the park Jiří Mánek explains the natural interest.

Production of tractors and harvesting thresher is very successful this year

Production of agricultural machines achieved the second best result in the history in the first half of this year in Germany. A turnover in the branch of agricultural machinery production in Germany has increased by 34 % this year. From January to June, according to information of a branch union VDMA Landtechnik, tractors and other agricultural machines in a value of 3,91 mld. €, which corresponds with an increase by 34 %, have been produced in Germany. However, in the same period of record year 2008 the production was even higher. VDMA counts that the turnover will have increased by the year end by 20 % to approximately 66 mld. € which corresponds with the second highest value.

Warning against over-fertilization of crops with sulphur

Problems of excessive supply of agricultural cultures with sulphur are explained by an actual gazette of German advisory service devoted to efficiency of fertilization. As the author of article Dr. Frank Eulenstein from Leibnitz center for research of agricultural landscape (ZALF) emphasized, many fertilizers contain such a relation of sulphur to nitrogen which is optimal for most crops. However, also many products which contained too high portion of suphur appeared on the market. Over-fertilization can lead to soil acidification and thereby to problems with soil fertility. In already acid soils a danger arises that by further calcium washout by seepage water accessibility of heavy metals will increase, Dr. Eulenstein states.