Summary of newspapers of the previous day – 18.10.2010

Farmers insist on evening up of direct payments

A Friday (15th October) meeting of the president of Agrarian Chamber of the CR (ACH CR), Jan Veleba with the premier Petr Nečas concerned a budget and increasing foods imports not always of high-quality. The negotiation was participated by a vice-president of ACH CR Jindřich Šnejdrla and a secretary Martin Fantyš. “We handed over a detailed material about our requirements to the premier”, Jan Veleba stated after the meeting. “We react in it to a proposal of the present government not to provide farmers any supplemental direct payments next year, in an abbreviation called Top up. Nevertheless, they are pivotal for a further run of this branch, he added.

Slovakian smoked sheep cheese will obtain EU protected mark

Slovakian sheep smoked cheese will obtain a protected mark of the European Union for traditional specialities. The European Commission, which informs on it on its web pages, decided about it today. The EU distinguishes three kinds of registrations: the Protected Geographical Indication (PGI), the Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) and the Traditional Speciality Guaranteed (TSG). The first two named marks guarantee that a product is produced partially or completely in a certain geographical area. The guaranteed specialities are products which can prove a traditional way of production and composition.

SZPI indentified supplier in causa of grapes of unknown origin

The State Agricultural Food Inspection (SZPI) informed in its press release at the end of August on frauds in assigning an origin of grapes in the company Vinium a.s. and České vinařské závody a.s. The company Vinium s.s. bought out grapes of unknown origin from three different suppliers. The Inspection succeeded to prove on base of deep checks that one of them was a company P.S., s.r.o. with based in Prague. It delivered more than 10 tonnes of grapes of unknown origin of the variety Moravian Muscat to the company Vinium a.s. SZIP inspectors discovered that the company P.S. s.r.o. bought these grapes from a company Vinotop CZ, s.r.o. based in Olomouc, which was also checked.

Madeta will release 100 people; it will close two operations

The dairy works Madeta plans to close two of six operations and to release one hundred employees next year. The firm released 168 people already this year to reduce expenditures. At the same time it cancelled dry milk operation in Strakonice. A general director of the company, Milan Teplý, stated in in an interview for Lidové noviny and added that Madeta plans to concentrate the production. He did not specify which operations will end next year. Now, the company employs 1700 people. Madeta wants to orientate more to export, the target markets shoul