Summary of newsmakers from the previous day 19.10.2005

Parliament supported ecological growing of fruit and grapevine

Farmers who grow fruit in ecological-friendly way will get a state support. A novel of ecological agriculture, which was approved by the Parliament today, counts on it. Growers will obtain a support in height of 3 940 crowns per hectare for fruit and 4 655 crowns per hectare for vine. Also bee-keepers can count on a financial contribution which keep bees in national parks and protected landscape areas. According to estimations of the Ministry of Agriculture farmers can apply for about 3000 hectares and the supports will demand roughly 120 million crowns.

Bush and Barroso supported trade liberalization

The EU and the USA have, according to both politicians, a common interest in opening of markets. We would like to reach ambitious and balance results in agriculture and not only there. How to get out of a deadlock in negotiations about a reform of the world trade? This question hung above a meeting of the American president George Bush and the president of the European Commission José Barrosa yesterday as a storm cloud although in agenda of negotiations also Near East and a fight against terrorism.

Parliament approved law on bio-spirit production for fuels

Legal conditions for bio-spirits production and its mixing with fuels were approved by the Chamber of Deputies in frame of law on spirit today. Admixing of bioethanol in petrol and oil should decrease a dependency of the Czech Republic on the oil import, contribute to improvement of air, and also bring a sale of cereals production. The draft has to be still negotiated by the Senate and signed by the President of republic. Among others the novel sets that distilleries for biospirit production will not be allowed to produce or adjust other kinds of spirits. According to the Ministry of Agriculture, the limitation is to prevent from a misuse of this spirit and a tax avoidance; the state will return consumption tax from a share of biospirit in fuels.

Cauliflower and cabbage has disappeared from fields; vegetable growers are liquidated by cheap import

There will no more be any growers of cauliflower and cabbage in Mladá Boleslav region. Polish import has completely steamrolled these commodities. Vegetable growers decrease acreages and switch to root crop. Large plants which deal with vegetable growing set off in a way of restructuring of the whole production. Smaller businesses decrease acreage on which they grow vegetable. All of it happens as a result of a sale crisis.