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Simon: Agriculture Ministry Plans for Tender Are Waste of Money
Wednesday 26 May 2010 Zoom in | Print page
Bratislava, May 26 (TASR) - The Agriculture Ministry's plans to invite tenders for identifying plants in forested areas that are officially listed in the Land Register as non-forested is a waste of money because the ministry already has this data, opposition political party Most-Hid vice-chairman Zsolt Simon said on Wednesday.
The former agriculture minister further told reporters that the areas concerned have been regularly identified since 1997 by aerial photographic surveying and that the data is stored by the Agriculture Research Institute and National Forestry Centre.
Whoever wins the tender will have to buy those sets of data from the said partially state-funded institutions, marshal them and resubmit them to the ministry as the tendered-for product.
Simon, therefore, believes that the minister would be better off commissioning the task from the Research Institute and National Forestry Centre and having them deliver the result within a month. "As there is an available database on agriculture, it only needs commissioning," he said.
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