Summary of newspapers of the previous day - 20.5.2010

Early potatoes will be more expensive owing to lower crop in abroad this year

Early potatoes will probably rise in price this year. According to the Central Potato Growing Union of the CR, owing to unfavourable weather the harvest will be lower in abroad and planting and growing on Czech fields falls behind. The first potato harvest in Polabí and southern Moravia can be expected in half of June, so by two weeks later than usually. A secretary of the union, Josef Králíček, said it to ČTK today. Growers could sell one kilogram for as many as 13 crowns; at the same time year ago they got less than ten crowns.

Checks of milk automats have not detected any problems for the present

The State Veterinary Administration (SVS) has not found out within checks of automats for fresh milk sale any more serious problems. A spokesman of SVS, Josef Duben, said it to ČTK today. In the Czech Republic, there are more than 160 machines now of which people can tap heat-untreated milk directly from farmers. At the end of February SVS informed that it would focus on checks of the automats. The reason was reports about diarrhoeal diseases which could be connected with the sale of raw milk. “Small problems which were detected were not of such a character that customers´ heath would be endangered”, Duben stated.

Representatives of ASZ ČR at opening of exhibition NATURA VIVA 2010

On Wednesday, the 19th of May, 2010, a well-known exhibition NATURA VIVA was solemnly opened at the Fairground in Lysá nad Labem. The opening took place in the presence of representatives of the Private Agriculture Association of the CR together wit a chairman ing. Josef Stehlík and other colleagues of organizations associated in a new Union of Subjects Interested in Hunting of the CR – Hunting Union of the CR. Representatives of organizations associated in frame of the Union of Subjects Interested in Hunting of the CR (Hunting Union of the CR) in the premises of the Fairground at 11.30 to sign a “Statute of the Hunting Union of the CR”.

How to treat with foodstuffs in flooded areas

Water in flooded areas slowly goes down; a time of cleaning and liquidation of damages comes. The State Agricultural and Food Inspection reminds in this context principles of safe treating with food stuffs. People should not consume foods which got in direct contact with flood water because there is a high risk of microbial contamination. It is possible to use only hermetically closed foods, only cans provided that they will be carefully cleaned and disinfected. Even in this case it is necessary to pay attention to whether the can is not damaged, deformed and whether the food inside does not show sensory changes (changes of taste, colour, smell).