Summary of newsmakers of the previous day – 2.11. 2006

Payment rate per acreage increases by 400 crowns

The Ministress of Agriculture Milena Vicenová approved a rate of unified payment per acreage (SAPS) for this year in height of 2517.80 crowns per hectare of agricultural land (88,886 Euro per hectare). Táňa Králová, the spokeswoman of the Ministry of Agriculture said it today. This direct payment which increases annually is covered from the European Union’s means. For the last year it was 2110.70 crowns per hectare, in 2004 it reached 1830.40 crowns per hectare. “The SAPS unified payment for this year in the Czech Republic will be paid for the total acreage 3 492 729.63 hectares. 21 186 subjects asked for it. The State Intervention Fund will start to pay these dotations immediately from the 1st December as the EU rules enable it. Czech agriculture will received by means of the unified payments par acreage almost 8.9 milliard crowns”, Králová informed.

Cabinet refused law on production of heat from renewable resources

The government does not agree with a proposal of several representatives to pass a law on production of heat energy from renewable resources and on a change of energetic law. The Cabinet’s press department informed on it after its today’s negotiation. The aim of representatives’ proposal is to increase a share of renewable energy resources to 2010, above all of biomass with a total consumption of energetic resources to six percents.

OP fishery 2007-2013 approved

In frame of the Operational Program Fishery fishermen will be able to spend in total about one milliard crowns during following seven years. The financial support is aimed at several areas. The first of them are investment in production, so building and modernization of production plant of removal of mud from ponds. The aim of this measure is maintenance of production of fresh water fish at the level of 20 000 tons per year till 2013. Yearly about 19 500 tons of fish is produced in the Czech Republic.

ACh: Chicken prices are under costs of breeders; there is threat of production fall

Domestic production of poultry meat according to Agrarian Chamber is endangered by low buy-out prices which are under costs of breeders. “Prices are pushed so low that in our opinion domestic production will decrease and exports will increase”, said the ACH president Jan Veleba to journalists today. Cheap chickens on shop counters, for example for 28 crowns per kilogram will obviously please consumers. However, according to breeders such view is short-sighted. They confirm that the current buy-out prices about 19 crowns per kilogram of live chicken are for them liquidating. According to them threatening limitation of production will means among others losses of jobs and other surpluses of cereals which will not be used as feed.

Source: Agris, 03.11.2006