Summary of newspapers of the previous day – 4. 4. 2011

Most sold bio-foods in network SPAR ČOS are milk products

A growing interest in bio-products is recorded in its shops by a company SPAR ČOS which offer in its assortment mainly bio-foods of own mark. Its bio-line SPAR Natur*pur contains more than 100 products at present. The interest in bio-foods in shops of the company SPAR ČOS permanently increases; a turnover of particular products moves in hundreds of thousands crowns yearly. Just the increased popularity of bio-foods confirms the present trend in customers´ behaviour. “Bio-products win still more and more our customers.”

In Lány, enlargement of breeding of dairy bred Jersey is planned

The School Farm Estate in Lány, which falls under the Czech University of Life Sciences, plans enlargement of cattle breeding. Concretely, it should be dealt with a breed Jersey holding its name according to an island of its origin. The aim of enlargement, besides increase in quality milk production, is also scientific and didactic reasons. The cattle breeding in the Farm Estate in Lány reaches to 1960´s when it was taken over by the present Czech University of Life Sciences. Already at the time, Czech red-pied and black-pied dairy cows were bred here.

Czech bio-food market in 2009 kept values from foregoing year; slight consumption growth is expected for 2010

Consumers in the Czech Republic spent 1.77 billion crowns for bio-foods in 2009 which is roughly the same amount as in 2008. The average yearly consumption per head amounted to less than 200 CZK and a share of bio-foods in the total consumption of foods and beverages reached 0.71 %, similarly as in the foregoing year. It results from a public report of the Institute of Agricultural Economics and Information (ÚZEI) published today. The bio-food market has coped with the financial and economic crisis very well.

Pig breeding support belongs among priorities of Ministry of Agriculture

Pig meat belongs among the most popular in the Czech Republic. However, numbers of pig and sow farms are decreasing. The Minister of Agriculture Ivan Fuksa made sure of the actual situation within his today´s excursion in a meat processing plant in Příbram. The meat processing plant in Příbram is the biggest meat processor and producer of meat products in the Central-Bohemian region

it belongs in the framework of republic in the first five in the branch. Despite the fact it struggles with problems caused by decrease in number of pigs and sows in the Czech Republic.