Summary of newspapers of the previous day – 26. 2. 2009

Damage for destroyed flock of geese was reckoned for at least two million CZK

Rybářství Hodonín reckoned damage which was caused after seven hundred-head flock of brood geese was destroyed owing to bird flu infection for two to two and half million crowns. It included in losses also smothered birds, devalued feed, and about 6000 liquidated eggs. Other roughly 1,2 million crowns will have to be paid by the firm to buy new brood goslings. The liquidated flock could be renewed by a year, an agent of co-owner if the firm Alois Kopečný said to ČTK today. Test did not proved the infection in remaining three flocks of geese and ducks.

Double money will go for some projects of 5th round of Rural Development Program

The Minister of Agriculture decided to increase money in some measures in the 5th round of the Rural Development Program to the height 200 % of originally determined volume. It concerns projects where recipients are mainly municipalities; especially measures supporting investment in municipalities and forest infrastructure. By this step the Ministry wants to help to solve impacts of the financial crisis on entrepreneurs in rural space and to help mainly in the measure of the axis III of the Rural Development Program to increase number of successful projects considering a high overhang of demand over disposable resources.

LČR: Profit will not be 700 mil as Novák imply but only 400 mil CZK

Lesy České republiky (LČR) debates with a former general director and the present Deputy Minister of Agriculture for Forest Management Jiří Novák about the height of last year´s gross profit. While Novák told in an interview for February issue of a journal Lesnická práce that the gross profit of state forests will be about 700 million crowns, according to a spokeswoman of the firm Eva Kijonková it will be only about 400 million crowns. Kijonková conveyed that the estimation does not correspond to real numbers.

More GM corn

Farmers in seven countries of the European Union including the Czech Republic and Slovakia increased production of genetically modified corn significantly last year and thereby almost compensate a dropout of France which forbade growing of this plant last year. “The worldwide acreage of area sown with genetically modified plants (GMO) spread by 9,4 percents to 125 million hectares last year”, an international agency for agri-biotechnologies ISAAA informed.