Summary of newspapers of the previous day – 12. 9. 2011

Visit rate of Pálavské vinobraní reached record this year

A visit rate of Pálavské vinobraní (grape harvest in Pálava) in Mikulov reached record this year. Even if total numbers of sold tickets from all ticket offices have not been closed yet, organizers estimate the total sum to 45 000. It is a record, Mikulov chief magistrate Rostislav Koštial said to ČTK today. Pálavské vinobraní last from Friday till today. Two-day Znojemské historické vinobraní (Znojmo historical grape harvest) attracted 77 000 visitors in Znojmo in Friday and Saturday. According to Koštial, the weather was extraordinarily favourable to Pálavské vinobraní this year.

AP: India has sufficient amount of food, they do not manage to get to consumer

Sunil Šarm, a young tomato-grower in north India has to go on trashy roads, to bribe policemen, and to fight with burning heat to deliver her crop on a bed of lorry without cooling equipment on a vegetable market in the city Dillí. Indian inhabitants suffer from under nourishment and growing inflation, but it is not because of lack of food. The country is the second largest fresh-food grower in the world but it is estimated that about 40 percents of fruit and vegetable go to waste just because of the difficulties with which Sunil battles every day.

Estonian fish flour was objectionable

The Regional Veterinary Administration for South-Moravian region ordered to stop a whole fish flour delivery of the producer AS POMES Feeds Estonia, charge 30-011, 24 200 kg owing to findings of excess-limit amount of dioxins. An examination sample was taken by inspectors from the Regional Veterinary Administration in the framework of a planned monitoring of heterogeneous substances. And in the State Veterinary Institute Prague it was found out in fish flour exceeding of a limit set for dioxins. On base of this findings in the firm producing feeds, the whole delivery of 24 200 kg of objectionable charge was found out, secured and subsequently stopped.

Saw-mill hope for earlier start of harvesting

Prices of spruce raw wood stayed at a high level in Austria in August. Wood of quality B 2B was traded for the average price 96 euro/m3. The harvesting took place without bigger difficulties; despite sultry heats in the second half of August only limited localities of wood engraver attack were reported. Many saw mill plants stopped production for one to three weeks in August, but in most of them it was not longer than in foregoing years. The demand for saw-mill round timber is still high; a considerably lower demand for pulp was recorded by forest owners in the third quarter.