Summary of newspapers of the previous day – 18. 3. 2009

Number of hypermarkets will further grow

According to research work of the company INCOMA „Shopping Center & Hypermarket 2009“ already 246 hypermarkets were operational in the Czech Republic, which generally manage more than 1,16 mil. m2 of sale areas. A turnover of all shops of this size exceeded 141 bil. CZK in 2008. Against the foregoing year, a number of hypermarkets increased by 15 which is less than the last before, nevertheless, it shows evidence of the fact that free places for hypermarkets are not still spent. The hypermarket expansion concentrates rather on smaller towns last year; it did not stop in a size-border of towns with 15 thousand inhabitants.

Production of Czech dairy works decreased year-on-year by 0,5 percent last year

Czech dairy works purchased and processed 2,368 billion liters of milk last year which was by half percent less than in 2007. It results from data published in March issue of a periodical Moderní obchod (Modern business) by a secretary of the Czech-Moravian Dairy Union Milan Křivánek. From the statistics results that the production decreased in most of categories of milk products; only production of market milk and cream increased. “It is possible to give reasons for it by increase of imports which share in Czech consumption with more than 37 percents. This import in an absolute majority takes place just in products with higher added value, first of all in cheeses.”

Press declaration of Land Adjustments Service Providers Association

Land adjustments in the Czech Republic are statutory duty of the state – in public interest to settle property ownership in such a way so that conditions for environment improvement. Land adjustments are an efficient tool of renewal of real estate register. In a situation when a decisive share of agricultural land in the CR is farmed by renters land owners support effectively more balanced relations between land owners and their renters.

Unfair agricultural EU policy should continue

Czech farmers and their colleagues from other “new” countries of the European Union have to contrive by 2013 with lower subsidies than farmers from the original fifteen take. In an interview for today´s Hospodářské noviny (HN) the Euro-commissioner for agriculture and rural development Mariann Fisher-Boel confirmed it. According to her, the European Union can relinquish subsidies nor in the future. “I don´t believe that a change of the present state would be possible before the year 2013”, Mariann Fisher-Boel said to the daily. Just the constraint on Brussels, so that all take the same subsidies already next year, was one of reasons of Thursday´s farmers´ demonstrations in Prague.