Summary of newsmakers of the previous day – 30. 07. 2008

Cancellation of program School milk means also cancellation of subsidies from EU

The Bohemian-Moravian Dairy Union and the Food Chamber of CR introduced their attitude towards a proposal of the Ministry of Agriculture to cancel endowment of the program School milk today. The both organization expressed their disagreement with cancellation of the program. Programs supporting milk consumption have demonstrably positive effects on health growth and development of children and help to corroborate their right boarding habits. The program supporting milk consumption by children in scholls is financed also by the European Union and sums from the EU still increase. In case of its cancellation there is a danger in the Czech Republic that it will lose the EU endowment in height of c.20 mil. CZK Programs of this kind are common in absolute majority of countries in the European Union, for example children in Finland and Romania got milk completely for free.

Cereals lose quality in dampness

A moody weather had the strongest impact on oil rape; damages climb to millions crowns. Here and there as much as third of depressed cereals and rape; substantially lower yields than farmers expected; a deteriorated quality of crops; damages in millions crowns; in a result maybe more expensive cereals and subsequently also bread. On the other hand, if something unexpected does not happen, enough potatoes which should be cheaper than last year. It is a balance of this year´s moody weather. „The spring worked out and in the beginning this year looked for farmers very hopefully. However, than it started heavily raining just in time of harvest and it´s raining practically for two last weeks“.

Antimonopoly Office imposed fine 13,5 million crowns to Kofola

A popular beverage producer – the company Kofola – will have to pay a fine 13,5 million crowns for vertically forbidden contracts. The fine in height 13 552 000 crowns was assessed by the Office for Protection of Competition (ÚOHS) to the company Kofola on Wednesday. The server iHNed.cz was informed on it by a chief of ÚOHS Martin Pecina. “A reason is vertically forbidden contracts. We spoke to them to that they set right the matter. The firm did that, therefore the fine imposed on them was finally only at the low limit. Otherwise there was a threat of a fine in height as much as 30 million crowns”, Pecina reported to the server iHNed.cz.

Dairy work decreases production

Ten thousand liters daily. This is exactly the amount of milk which farmers will stop delivering in a dairy work in Bohušovice in the region Litoměřice already in several days. A reason is reputedly a falling interest in milk products. According to an assurance by Miloslav Potůček, a chairman of Dairy Sales Cooperative Litoměřice, decrease of deliveries would not existentially endanger farmers. Even a number of raised pieces of dairy cows in the region Litoměřice should not be decreased. “For us decrease in deliveries in the dairy work in Bohušovice means a displacement of this amount to other processor. It is not a problem of demand for our milk”, Miloslav Potůček confirmed.