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Bioagra continues planting trees around the “Goświnowice” Ethanol Production Plant. This week, over 170 several-year-old trees have been planted, which will constitute an avenue along the Nysa ring road and the access road to the company.

Trees from 6 to 8 years old, which usually grow in the Opole region, were selected for planting, e.g. small-leaved and silver linden, cherry plum or rowan. The trees will affect the aesthetics of the factory surroundings, as well as contribute to reducing the noise level from the production installation.

The new trees will introduce the necessary biodiversity and enrich the surroundings with color. The maroon leaves of the cherry plum will strongly contrast with the silver-green coverings of the linden trees and the colors of the Serbian spruce, black pine and cypress trees already growing around the plant.  

– We plant quite large trees, because the seedlings are up to 4 meters high and the trunks are up to several centimeters thick – says Mirosław Obarski of Bioagra SA. – We work with the use of specialized equipment. The ground is drilled to a depth of about half a meter to reach the soft earth. Thanks to this, trees will be able to develop the root system more easily, without wasting energy in passing into the water through compacted soil – adds Mirosław Obarski  

Bioagra emphasizes that the scale of spring and current plantings is very large. The company has planted more trees around the “Goświnowice” Ethanol Production Plant than Rzeszów in the entire city with nearly 200 000 inhabitants. The company has been planting trees intensively since 2018. The costs, without ongoing maintenance, i.e. watering and protection, have already amounted to several hundred thousand zlotys.

Bioagra SA runs another regional initiative supporting the fight against coronavirus. The company will provide nearly two and a half thousand liters of DEZPOWER disinfectant liquid for free to educational institutions from the Nysa county.

Bioagra’s campaign will cover several dozen educational institutions with almost 10,000 children and adolescents and nearly 1 300 people. These are primary and secondary schools, school and education centers, as well as kindergarten teams. Nearly two and a half thousand liters of DEZPOWER liquid for disinfecting hands and surfaces will be delivered to facilities.

The disinfectant fluid that Bioagra produces effectively destroys the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. It is made of the highest quality ethanol and the best fragrance additives available on the European market. The product has been registered and admitted to trading by the Office for Registration of Medicinal Products, Medical Devices and Biocidal Products.

The current action is another action of the company aimed at the education sector. In June and August this year the company distributed several hundred liters of disinfectants to public and private kindergartens and nurseries.

In April this year Bioagra donated 7 000 liters of DEZPOWER fluid to the local government in Nysa, the infectious diseases hospital in Nysa and Głuchołazy and several other medical units, fire brigades and churches.

Within two years, Bioagra SA planted nearly 2 600 trees around the “Goświnowice” Ethanol Production Plant. When they grow, they will act as a barrier to the sound generated by the plant and improve the aesthetics of the space.

The scale of the project is very large. This year, Bioagra will plant more trees in the vicinity of ZPE than Rzeszów in the entire city, with a population of nearly 200 000. The cost of planting, without ongoing maintenance, i.e. watering and protection, has amounted to a total of approx. 275k PLN

The company has been planting trees intensively since 2018. Seedlings from 1.5 to 4 meters high were used to create a green wall around the plant. The trees are to improve the aesthetics of the factory surroundings in summer and winter, as well as contribute to reducing the noise level from the production installation.

This year, the company plans to plant nearly 1,200 trees and further enhance biodiversity. So far, mainly conifers have been planted. However, new plantings of deciduous trees, such as linden or hawthorn, will appear in the fall.

Aesthetic trees resistant to weather conditions, diseases and pests were selected for planting. At the moment there are Serbian spruces, blue spruces, black pines, alumi cypresses and thujas “Sarbina”, “Kórnik” and “Brabant”.

The green wall of trees is just one of the elements of BIOAGRA SA’s activities aimed at reducing the noise generated by the production installation. In addition to planting, a number of other activities were carried out on the site. The loudest and most acoustically disturbing devices were located.Various silencers were installed, the devices were replaced with new ones and natural acoustic walls in the form of grain tanks were built. Further activities of this type are planned.

Beata Malik, a beekeeper from Skorochów near Nysa, runs a bee breeding project in cooperation with Bioagra. In several dozen so-called mating boxes, standing at company’s premises, bees are preparing for mating flights. Classic hives, at which bess laboriously produce honey, are standing next to mating boxes.

The mother bee breeding program has now been running for the third season and brings very good results. New queens and their descendants, bee families, are gentle and hard-working thanks to proper breeding that enables proper gene exchange between insects.

The area that was made available by Bioagra is closed and monitored. Bees live peacefully and have a large supply of varied food under the watchful eye of cameras. Rapeseed fields, acacia, linden and forests are all within the range of flights of insects.

In such a favorable environment, young bee mothers are getting ready for their future role – the queen of the entire bee family. They stay in special hives, the so-called mating boxes. From here they set off for a mating flight. Young queens are replacing the old ones or are introduced into the hive in case the old queen dies.

– We were looking for an area where bees do not disturb people and people do not disturb bees – says Beata Malik, who runs an apiary. – Cooperation with Bioagra is perfect for the bees. The environment in which the hives stand is very clean. The company informs us in advance when works related to its activities will be carried out and we can rearrange the hives if there is such a need.

On one hand, Beata Malik treats cooperation with Bioagra as a support for local business, but also as an activity of great importance for bees as a species. In order to survive they need healthy, genetically strong queens that allow the insects to extend the species. In turn, people, thanks to bees, receive honey and something of extraordinary value. It is about the possibility of growing many plants that are a key link in the food production chain.

According to the United Nations, bees pollinate about 70 out of 100 crops that provide 90% of humanity. food. It is estimated that a third of food eaten by humans is created thanks to the fact that bees pollinate the flowers of various plants. “If the bees would disappear, humanity would not have survived four years …” – this statement, attributed to Albert Einstein, indicates the importance of the role of bees in the production cycle of food that we buy in stores.

It is estimated that about 470 species of bees live in Poland. Over half of them are threatened with extinction. As Beata Malik explains, bees currently don’t have enough places where they can live safely, reproduce and obtain food. Beekeepers have more and more problems with setting the hives. Like other breeders, e.g. cows, goats or pigs, they are often reluctant to be seen in inhabited places.