Summary of newspapers of the previous day – 8.4. 2009

Number of bio-food processors grows in Vysočina; interest in them increases

A number of bio-food processors grows in Vysočina thanks to the increasing consumer demand for crops and meat from organic farms. According to information from the Ministry of Agriculture, 12 enterprises dealt with bio-foods production five years ago; at the end of last year it was already twenty firms. Earlier farmers in the region complained about a lack of processing capacities for their bio-production, now the sale is reputedly mostly sufficient.

Fairground in Litoměřice opened season by Tržnice Zahrada Čech

Meanwhile about 260 exhibitors entered the first this year´s action of the fairground; it is a bit less against the last year, however, they occupy almost the same area as in the last year. A final number of exhibitors can still increase, according to Jersáková some come even at the last moment. “However, they rather places themselves on the outside area or only with a small stand”, Jersáková said to ČTK. This year the fairground management distributed stalls a bit more freely, so, there is almost no free space. More than 35 000 people came to look at Tržnice Zahrada Čech in 2008, this year the organizers would like to exceed this limit. “W e expects a great number of people because of nice weather”, Jersáková said.

Genetically modified corn will grow not far off

Already in several days genetically modified corn resistant to weeds and pests will be sown on a filed distant just about fifteen kilometers from the region metropolis. The experimental crop will grow on an acreage of fourteen hectares which for imagination corresponds to an area of size of fourteen squares of Přemysl Otakar II in České Budějovice. “It is corn only for an experiment and will be subject to strict measures for sowing, treatment and liquidation”, a head of the scientific project Oxana Habuštová from the Entomological Institute of the Biological Centre of Academy of Sciences of the CR in České Budějovice ensures. The genetically modified corn cannot get in agricultural crop and harvest, nor it cannot reproduce by self-sowing. All experimental plants will be liquidated in a phase when a grain is not able to sprout. “Corn in vax maturity will be cut to one centimeter big pieces and plough under in soil”, Habuštová specified.

World-wide wine consumption decreased slightely

A world-wide wine consumption slightly decreased. First of all it is because of a fall in demand in traditional viticultural countries as France, Italy and Germany, apparently owing to the economic crisis. On the contrary the situation was rescued by a stable or higher sale of wines in the USA, Australia, Canada and Brazil. However, generally the wine production in the world slightly increased. It as announced by the International Organization of Vine and Wine (OIV) today. Wine consumption in 2008 decreased by 0,8 percents to 243 million hectoliters against 245 million hectoliters in 2007. “It is definite that the world economic crisis plaid its role in the decrease of global demand”, a general director of OIV Federico Castellucci said.