Summary of newspapers of the previous days – 23. 1. – 25.1. 2009

Special conditions for import in EU from third countries

The European Union works at to secure the safest supplies in the EU. Further, it requires using of the same standards concerning food safety for all products regardless of place of their origin. The EU as the biggest food importer and exporter in the world cooperates closely with international organizations and offers an advice and help to business partners from third countries. Besides rules which holds in the Union from a viewpoint of requirements of public health and animal health and which a third country exporting in the EU has to keep, there are many special conditions for import of certain foods in the EU.

Price of agricultural land grows; purchase of fields is good investment

Almost three million people owning land in the Czech Republic can start to think of a very interesting earnings. A value of their fields starts significantly grow and a considerable part of land will rise in price in the next few years as much as severalfold. Finally, agricultural land starts to become a normal market commodity especially because the state significantly fastened so called land adjustments last year thanks to which land owners can treat with their land absolutely without restraint.

Farmers try to survive

Dairy-cow breeders in the region Český Krumlov have milk consumer, meanwhile, however, they do not know, what will happen. Farmers in the region live now in considerable insequrity owing to unfavourable development of milk sale situation. Not only the Czech Republic has a surplus of milk but also all the Europe. Sale stagnates, south-Bohemian Madety dissolves contracts with suppliers and closes other of its plants. All who produce less that 300 liters of milk have already received an abrogation of a convention.

Babiš´s Agrofert Holding entered Milkagro and Olma

Today, Agrofert Holding of an entrepreneur Andrej Babiš entered officially the company Milkagro which overmaster a dairy works Olma in Olomouc. A director of Milkagro Roman Beneš said it to ČTK after negotiation of an extraordinary general meeting of the firm, which appointed a representative of Agrofert in the presidency of Milkagro. Olma in Olomouc is the second most important Czech producer of milk products. “A process of buy-out of Milkagro stocks has not been finished. Nevertheless, already now Agrofert Holding owns more than 50 percents of stocks of the company. After today´s general meeting representatives of Agrofert are in the presidency of Milkagro and farmers have their representatives in a supervisory board”, Beneš said. He refused to express his opinion of a price for which Agrofert obtained the share in Milkagro.