Summary of newspapers of the previous day – 15. 9. 2009

Agriculture budget increase will go mainly to even up payments

Two billion crowns by which the state budget in the agricultural department for next year was increased by the Minister of Finances Eduard Janota last week will be determined predominantly for evening up of direct payments from national resources, so called top-up payments. The Ministry of Agriculture informed ČTK on it. Czech agrarian organizations requires in the long term full evening up of payments. To happen it really, it would be necessary seven billion crowns, a president of the Agrarian Chamber Jan Veleba said to ČTK. The entire two-billion sum is not determined for additional payments. “A part of means will be swallowed by administration of the State Agricultural Intervention Fund”.

UNO reduces food aid to Africa owing to lack of money

UNO has to close 12 branches providing food to mothers and children in Somalia. The reduction of food aid concerns also other African states. According to BBC the reason is a lack of finances. A World Food Program (WFP) had to reduce the aid despite the long-term crisis in Somalia. According to a spokesman of WFP in Kenya, Peter Smerdon, the program had no choice, it got only 40 percents of necessary finances for the next year. Decrease in a volume of food aid comes in a moment when according to UNO about three million of Somalis are dependent on it. Every fifth Somali child suffers from a serious undernourishment.

EU will have record crop of rape this year

The European Union countries will probably reach a new record in oil rape harvest in a volume 20,30 million tons this year and thereby they will exceed the last year´s record 18,9 million tons. An analytic firm Oil World in Hamburg, which increased its August estimation by 180 000 tons, predicted it. The increased production of the plant, whose oil started to use on a mass scale as bio-fuel in recent years, will significantly reduce European demand for an import of this raw-material. Oil World estimates that the EU will decrease the total import of rape in this season to 1,90 million tons from 3,22 million tons in the season 2008/09.

Harvest time end in the Czech Republic, 220 hectares remain to be harvested

This year´s harvest in the Czech Republic completely finishes. Farmers have to harvest the last 220 hectares of cereals of the total 1,427 million hectares. It results from data of the Ministry of Agriculture on the date the 14th of September. A production of basic cereals without corn and other cereals has meantime reached 7,243 million tons; last year it amounts to 7,496 million tons. So, a result of the harvest will be better that most of the present estimation presumed. An average hectare yield 5,07 tons is by 0,15 tons lower than year ago. Also, the entire area sown with cereals was lower by one- half percent this year against the last year.