Summary of newsmakers of the previous day – 8.2.2008

Exhibitors prepare news for fair TECHAGRO

Coming international trefoil of fairs TECHAGRO, ANIMAL VETEX, SILVA REGINA is a signal for all exhibitors to prepare their news which they are going to present at this year. Specialists and businessmen from agricultural, veterinary and forestry sector will come together in Brno on the 6th-10th of April to close contracts, to see new trends, as well as to confront their experience with their Czech and foreign colleagues.

Forestry engineering and bio-mass at fair SILVA REGINA

Firm dealing with sale of forestry engineering and engineering for pro bio-mass processing are very interested in presentation at the international forestry and hunting fair SILVA REGINA. A fair which will proceed at the same time as a fair of agricultural engineering TECHAGRO and a veterinary fair ANIMAL VETEX will take place at the fairground in Brno from the 6th to the 10th of April and it will be the biggest in its history.

ČSÚ: Rice and apples rose in price this week; bread and pastry cheapened

Above all rice, apples and chicken meat rose in price on shelves of domestic groceries this week. On the contrary, bread, pastry, tomatoes and paprika cheapened. It results from results of regular investigation of consumer’s prices of selected foodstuffs which were published by the Czech Statistic Office (ČSÚ) today. A kilogram of hulled rice of first quality rose in price in comparison with the last week at average by 4,3 percent, so by 1,12 crowns to 27,34 CZK/kg. Tradesmen sold consumption apples at average for 30,77 CZK/kg, so by 1,27 CZK more expensive in comparison with the foregoing week. A price of one kilogram of chicken meat increased by 1,13 crowns to 62,12 CZK/kg.

Not bakers but shops are blame for more expensive bread

Rubber rolls and bread without taste which, however, cost more and more money. It is often experience not only in inland supermarkets but in common shops. Where is the problem? Backers are clear – their prices are pushed down by tradesmen, mainly by big chains, in such way that bakeries try to cheapen production as much as possible. Bakers do not want to hear about that they produce at the expense of quality, however, they admit that they bake different bread and rolls than to which the Czech were used in the past. “Classical Czech bread disappears in fact”, a chief of the Association of millers and bakers Jaroslav Chochole says. According to a chief of the Czech Bakers’ and Confectioners’ Association Stanislav Musil production of traditional bread costs more which consumers are not able to accept and they insist on the condition of “as lowest price as possible”.