Summary of newspaper of the previous days - 21.5. – 23.5.2010

Growth and employment are crucial for agriculture policy reform, Spaniard say

Economic growth, creation of new job opportunities and sustainability in the agricultural sector are, according to Spaniard, the main aims of a planned reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (SZP). Agriculture cost the Union 50 billion Euro yearly and within a new financial frame after 2013 the sector has to be reformed. Politicians, who are for maintenance of the contemporary height of CAP financing, are aware of the necessity to connect agriculture with a wider complex of economic, social and environmental objectives of the EU.

CSO: Bread price has raised in last two weeks and papaprikas cheapened

In last two weeks, price has raised the most in bread, more than by six percents. Also mineral water and oranges price has increased relatively significantly. Vice versa, customers paid less for paprikas, tomatoes and ham salami. It results from data published by the Czech Statistic Office (CSO) today. Konzumní kmínový chléb (caraway bread) was in shops to the 17th of May at average for 18.86 crowns, so by 1.17 crowns more expensive than two week ago. Customers paid by 26 hellers more than two weeks ago for one liter of natural mineral carbonic water which cost at average 8.25 crowns. One kilogram oranges was more expensive by 89 hellers and cost 28.68 crowns.

President´s veto is not popular among farmers

Disagreement of the President Václav Klaus with an intention to admix more spirit in petrol and above all of rape oil in diesel oil from this year´s June complicates a situation of both the Czech bio-fuel producers and the farmers. For example the enterprise Agro Pertoltice in the region Kutná Hora sewed by almost hundred hectares more of rape than the last year. They counted on a substantially higher interest in this crop-plant.

ACH: Water has flooded minimally 12 000 hectares of agricultural land

Flooded rivers in Morava and Silesia has flooded minimally 12 000 hectares of agricultural land, Jan Záhorka from the Agrarian Chamber said to ČTK today. Also some farm buildings, for example feeds stores or stables, are under water. The statement from today´s morning is not final because data from South-Moravian region, where water further floods other areas, are not disposable yet. For example, according to Zátopka, in the region Opava and Ostrava 1650 hectares in total have been flooded, in the region Frýdek-Místek 2013 hectares. Olomouc region reports over 3000 hectares of flooded fields, 2800 hectares is under water in the middle part of the river Morava in Hodonín region.