Summary of newspapers of the previous day – 23. 3. 2011

FAO: This year´s global wheat production will increase by 3.4 percents

The world wheat production will markedly grow this year against the last year thanks to significantly increased prices. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the UNO stated it in its first estimation for this year today. The organization also increased slightly tha last year´s production estimation, however, it warned that reserves of cereals will considerably decrease owing to increased demand. The global wheat production should increase by 3,4 percents to 676 million tones, but it will remain below record levels reached in 2008 and 2009.

USA have blocked import of fresh foods from area around Fukushima

The United States, as the first, have stopped import of fresh foods from four Japanese prefectures around the nuclear power station Fukushima and South Korea is considering the same step. The measures were announced at night to today of our time by American Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Thereby, it reacted to fears that foods contaminated by radiation outflow after the earthquake and tsunami in North-East Japan in the March 11 could get into the trade network. FDA stated that the USA will block imports of milk and fresh fruit and vegetable from prefectures Fukushima, Ibaraki, Tochigi a Gunma,.

Czech trademarks attract still less and less, only beer and wine take points

As regards beer or wine, we mostly revel domestic production; vice versa in electronics we prefer foreign products. However, generally the interest in domestic goods decreases. A company Factum Invenio has found it out in a survey. It investigated whether people take trademarks of purchased goods into consideration and whether they prefer the Czech ones or the foreign ones.

Farmers from Vrcovice will process all their milk; there is interest in products

Husbands Ciboch´s in mini-dairy works in Vrcovice in the region Písek process roughly 300 liters of milk daily from their 25 cows. They produce traditional yoghurts, cottage cheese, natural cheeses, spreads, and butter. Originally, they had an automatic machine for fresh milk in near-by Písek, however, owing to decreasing interest they switched to milk products. They sell them both directly from the farm and in several shops. “The biggest people´s interest is in yoghurts which represents roughly a half of our total production”, Petra Cichová said to ČTK.