Summary of newspapers of the previous day – 22. 9. 2009

French milk producers fight against its low value

A war of milk producers against European Union regulations, owing to which prices of this basic food are unusually low, burns in France. Farmers in several regions, similarly as last week, poured hectoliters of milk on fields and streets in towns, some also blocked milk processing plants, seats of food firms as well as authority buildings. The protesting in France were joined also by producers in Switzerland and Belgium where the demonstrating created “a lack” of milk in front of a building of the European Commission in Brussels. French trade unions promoting milk producers appealed its members to completely break a supply of their products to customers until French government and the European Commission adopt appropriate measures which increase the prices again.

Takings of Czech farmers will decrease by 20 billions, the most since admission in EU

Czech agricultural enterprises will probably end in loss this year for the first time since the accession in EU. Owing to fall in milk prices, cereal and other commodities prices the all-year taking will be lower by more than 20billion crowns. It is estimated also by the Agricultural Union of the CR. If the estimation pans out, this year´s farmers´ incomes will be at the level of 17 percents of last year´s incomes. “Such a fall can not be evened-up by savings in costs”, a chairman of the Union, Miroslav Jirkovský told at a special workshop in Žďár nad Sázavou. “I suppose that we are in red numbers”, he added. Czech agriculture showed gain 9,7 billion CZK last year.

Food without name win, people buy more goods with mark of shops

New marks whose names are not usually remembered by customers, co nquer Czech shops. However, when they see them on shelves they will awake to the main advantage connected with their shopping: its low price. Customers start to significantly more buy goods sold under a name of shop. Euroshopper, Tesco Value, Clever or Best Farm. This is just a part of marks which had merit in that a share of “no name” products in the total sales in the Czech Republic increased from 18 percents in 2007 to last year´s 27 percents. Also the economic crisis and decreasing expenditures of households helped them to the success.

August fines over for million and half

Although it is not possible to say that a main sense of the State Veterinary Inspection would be to fine, regional veterinary administrations opened 79 administrative procedures and fined in height 1 507 200 CZK in August. In last years the yearly height of fines in welfare checks, in processing plants and in introduction of foods of animal origin in circulation, i.e. in the market network, move about 16 million crowns. In this light it can be said that the last month August was “average”. Since this year´s beginning (January to August) the fines were in height of 9 456 000 CZK. Roughly, the year-on-year recordable decrease in fines is in hundreds of thousands.