BERLIN (Reuters) - A thief in Germany used a flower pot to steal a 150,000 euro (107,442 pounds) Porsche.
Reversing out of his open garage, the car's owner heard a scraping noise and got out to investigate, police in the western city of Bonn said on Tuesday.
As the 56-year-old was bending down to remove a flower pot jammed against a tyre, a man pushed him aside, leaped behind the wheel and drove off in his grey Porsche 997 Turbo.
"All the shocked man could do was jump to one side to avoid being run over," police said.
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
NACIL mulls flower export by Pune-Dubai flight
Pune, December 3 National Aviation Company of India Limited (NACIL), that was set up following the merger of Air India and Indian on March 30, is planning to tap the unutilised cargo capacity of the direct Pune-Dubai flight for exporting perishable agricultural items. The plan is to set the ball rolling with export flowers to the west Asian market. The first consignment of exports are tentatively scheduled for the first week of January, said deputy general manager of the State Agricultural Marketing Board, Santosh Patil.
A meeting of the aviation company officials, floriculturists, horticulturists and the State Agricultural Marketing Board has been scheduled on December 13 at the Inland Cargo Depot (ICD) at Dighi near here to chalk out a detailed action.
The direct Pune-Dubai flight was started way back in December 2005 by Air India. However, it was after getting taken over by Indian in September 2007, that it was decided to tap this export potential.
“No agriculture items were dispatched from the flight until then. Recently a meeting was held with the state Marketing Minister Harshwardhan Patil to consider the export of perishable agriculture items from Maharashtra. Western Maharashtra is a prolific producer of flowers and the number of growers is increasing by the day. So when there is a direct international flight from Pune, why not make use of it? Currently, farmers from western Maharashtra take their produce to Mumbai for exports,” said Area Marketing Manager of Air India for Pune region, Dhairyashil Vandekar.
At the December 13 meeting, the effort will be to give farmers an opportunity to observe from close quarters various aspects of cargo export and packaging. A preliminary meeting had recently been organised by Air India where farmers from across the state - even from as far as Satara and Kolhapur - had participated.
For floriculturists from the hinterland, who till now had to wait till their produce reached Mumbai before knowing whether it made the grade as exportable commodity to the west Asian countries, this move by NACIL has come as a big shot in the arm.
“Farmers in Satara predominantly grow gerbera, carnation and roses. There is a good market for flowers abroad and the Pune-Dubai flight can be a good chance to export them in a comparatively shorter time. The access to foreign market will mean more money for floriculturists. Other countries have already started pushing their agriculture produce here and this will give us a chance to reverse the trend,” said Rajendra Sarkale, Director of the Ajinkyatara Farmers Co-operative Society of Satara.
A meeting of the aviation company officials, floriculturists, horticulturists and the State Agricultural Marketing Board has been scheduled on December 13 at the Inland Cargo Depot (ICD) at Dighi near here to chalk out a detailed action.
The direct Pune-Dubai flight was started way back in December 2005 by Air India. However, it was after getting taken over by Indian in September 2007, that it was decided to tap this export potential.
“No agriculture items were dispatched from the flight until then. Recently a meeting was held with the state Marketing Minister Harshwardhan Patil to consider the export of perishable agriculture items from Maharashtra. Western Maharashtra is a prolific producer of flowers and the number of growers is increasing by the day. So when there is a direct international flight from Pune, why not make use of it? Currently, farmers from western Maharashtra take their produce to Mumbai for exports,” said Area Marketing Manager of Air India for Pune region, Dhairyashil Vandekar.
At the December 13 meeting, the effort will be to give farmers an opportunity to observe from close quarters various aspects of cargo export and packaging. A preliminary meeting had recently been organised by Air India where farmers from across the state - even from as far as Satara and Kolhapur - had participated.
For floriculturists from the hinterland, who till now had to wait till their produce reached Mumbai before knowing whether it made the grade as exportable commodity to the west Asian countries, this move by NACIL has come as a big shot in the arm.
“Farmers in Satara predominantly grow gerbera, carnation and roses. There is a good market for flowers abroad and the Pune-Dubai flight can be a good chance to export them in a comparatively shorter time. The access to foreign market will mean more money for floriculturists. Other countries have already started pushing their agriculture produce here and this will give us a chance to reverse the trend,” said Rajendra Sarkale, Director of the Ajinkyatara Farmers Co-operative Society of Satara.
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