Summary of newspapers of the previous day – 10.8.2006

Czech hop growers live the worse times in more than one hundred years

Beers in Belgium, Germany or England are produced from North-Bohemian hop. The same as local beer of the best quality. Despite the fact our hop growing, a traditional North-Bohemian grower branch, is in recession and in hop garden there will be less work doe seasonal workers and students is this season. Hop-gardens acreage is the smallest in last 135 years. Growers estimates a fall of yields as much as by a quarter this year. Last year they harvested 7 831 tons of hop with yield 1,38 tons from hectare. “This year yield will be 1,02 – 1,06 tons from hectare. A part of crops was damaged by May hail-storm, growths were influenced also by tropical weather in July”, a secretary of the Hop Growers Union of the Czech Republic, Zdeněk Rosa explains.

Agrarian Chamber ask government for help due to by weather devalued crops

Forceful swings of this year’s weather when fruitful rains changed tropical temperatures devaluated, according to growers, a large part of cereal crop. Therefore the Agrarian Chamber wants to ask the government for help. The president of chamber, Jan Veleba, will meet in this matter the Minister of Agriculture, Jan Mládek. Agroweb was informed about it by a press spokeswoman of the Chamber, Eugenie Línková. She told that due to extreme changes of weather grain in cereal spikes started to germinate. According to Línková, such cereal is not able to be harvested by a harvester, so a part of cereals will not be possible to be beaten out. “This process happens each year in a fragment of acreages, however, a loss is minimal. This year it is almost on 70 percent of acreages, all the more it is horrible”, she specified.

To feed rests of food will not be possible

Since November on the entire EU territory feeding of farm animals by rests of food will be forbidden. The European Union does not want to prolong further validity of permit to feed farm animals by rests of food. The validity of present permit ends at the end of October this year. Only in Germany, according to estimations, about 2 million tons of food rests are produced yearly. With a share in daily feeding ration of fattening pigs of height 3 liters per one animal it was possible to feed with food rests yearly about 6 million pigs. The mentioned amount of food rests can replace thanks to its feeding value about 400 000 tons of wheat or barley and 100 000 tons of soya oil meat. Other priority of feeding of this rests is the fact that a closed nutrient cycling, which does not represent a burden for environment, happens.

Five countries forbade import of poultry from the Netherlands due to bird flu

Five mainly Asian countries forbade import of poultry and products from poultry meat from the Netherlands. It is because of a report that the Dutch found out a strain of bird flu H7 in one farm which is less dangerous form of the feared strain H5. The Dutch Ministry of Agriculture reported it today. The ban was announced by Russia, Philippines, Singapore, Tchaj-wan and Hongkong. Some of them apply a general ban, others only a partial one, a spokeswoman of the ministry announced. The Dutch offices liquidated all roughly 25 000 chickens last week which appeared in the infected farm in area Gelderse Vallei in central part of the country. Other 130 farms were closed and are tested for bird flu to prevent spreading of this infection. The Netherlands becomes to the largest exporter of chickens in the world.