Summary of newspapers of the previous day – 11. 08. 2008

Bio-foods are really quality guarantee

From May to July samples of nineteen bio-foods were examined in laboratories of the State Agricultural and Food Inspection (SZIP) in frame of monitoring of quality of certified bio-foods on Czech market. Analyses concentrated on a content of residues of pesticides, mycotoxines, nitrates and presence of GMO. Breach of rules of ecological agriculture was found out neither in one sample and all tested bio-foods agree with requirement of the legislative in operation.

Arable land in the Czech Republic runs low; it steps aside to buildings and forests

Annually several thousand hectares of arable land disappear in the Czech Republic. Former fields are replaced satellite towns, business centers and new factories. Farmers start to get worried. They assert that in few years every meter of agricultural land will be missing. Agricultural land significantly decreased in the north of Moravia; in last four years almost 8000 hectares was irretrievably lost. The reason is upward industry movement. New factories, among which motor works Hyundai in Nošovice reigns, occupy often the best land. Since 2004 also a share of forest land has increased in all regions with the exception of northern Moravia and Vysočina.

South-Moravian vine-growers expect good year

According to vine-growers´ expectations this year´s harvest of grapes will be good and wine lovers can look forward the same as last years to above-average year. Amount and quality of crop as well as sugar content of grapes will be determinate by the weather in the second half of August and in September when berries ripen. ČTK in inquiry among South-Moravian vine-growers found out that they were annoyed the most by fungi diseases this year owing to rainy June and the beginning of holiday. “Meanwhile it looks good, however, to everybody who asks me about the crop I say that September will decide it. For example two years ago July and August was catastrophic for vine-growers but than very warm and sunny autumn came”.

Large-scale pig breedings go bankrupt

The blackest considerations about the end of pig breeding in Bohemia and Moravia have become the reality. Many significant producers of pigs for fattening announced the end. Warnings of a president of the Agrarian Chamber of CR Jan Veleba are worse in fact than he published. It is sad that commodities which were suitable for our geographical zone and soil conditions end. After sugar beet, which is on a third of areas, also large-scale pig breedings go bankrupt and it is getting dark also above milk producers. A chairman of the Regional Chamber of Ostrava region František Mariánek announced in the last July day that pig breeding has been in a crisis since 2002 and some breeders don´t continue in losses in business and end.