Summary of newspapers of the previous day – 26.10. 2011

Representatives supported amendment limiting impacts of pesticides use

The Chamber of Deputies supported in the first reading a government amendment of act on phytosanitary care today. This draft law should limit impacts of use of pesticides on human health and the environment. Among others it forbids aerial sprays of chemical preparations, however, it enables them under well defined conditions. The amendment will be now discussed by the agricultural committee. Aerial sprays will have to be allowed by a phytosanitary administration on base of an aerial plan and a subsequent application for permission of a particular aerial application or in case of extraordinary aerial sprays. If the phytosanitary administration allows the aerial spray, it will have to inform municipalities in the affected area and local authorities will have to inform their citizen by an usual way.

Cabbage crop is high-quality; prices on market will decrease

This year´s cabbage crop is high-quality. Growers supposes that prices on thee market will decrease; the cabbage crop is very good in all Europe. The harvest culminates in Zemědělský podik Malše which belongs to the biggest growers in the Czech Republic. Heads of cabbage are grown on 37 hectares here; they are going to harvest and processed 1000 tonnes, a chief of cutting room and a chairman of a sour cabbage section of Vegetable-Growing Union of Bohemia and Moravia Eduard Šebenda said to ČTK. People carry away directly from manufacturing line in Roudné roughly 100 tonnes of freshly cut heads of cabbage. South Czechs are according to Šebenda conservatives; they like to pickle cabbage according to traditional family recipes themselves. Cabbage in south Bohemia is above all an important ingredient in “zelňáky”, i.e. floury scones with cabbage.

Bee-keepers: This year was very good

Honey season was very successful this year, bee-keepers assert. They are absolutely satisfied with work of their bees. Despite the fact everything is not so “pink” as it could seem to be at first sight. According to Jiří Zavřel, a chairman of basic organization of Czech Bee-keepers Union in Nové Městě, the season was long and no disaster in form of storm, which always interrupts this period, has not come. “So, we have in hone everything what flowered in the nature this time. From maple, through rape, raspberry, clover…This year, we have also very quality dark forest honey”, Zavřel told. As he added further, everything has also its downside.

10.000 salmons were let down in river Kamenice; donors helped too

Fishermen and employees of the Administration of the National Park Czech Switzerland let down over 10.000 small salmons in the river Kamenice and other streams on Tuesday. Money for several-centimeter fish were provided besides the park administration also by sponsors. More than 40.000 crowns were sent by people by means of messages DMS. A spokesman of the administration Tomáš Salov said it to ČTK in letting down the salmons at Dolský mill on Kamenice. Fish come from a hatchery in Langburkersdorf. “One fish costs 80 Eurocents (about 20 crowns) in the German hatchery; we let down amount for 200.000 crowns” Salov counted. Other salmons are let down for money of the Czech Fishing Union.