Summary of newspapers of the previous day – 14.4. 2009

Fish future is in artificial breeding

Experts agree that we will not get along fish farms – but at the same time they warn against their negative influences on ecosystems. Give a hungry a fish and you will satisfy him/her for a day. Teach him/het to fish and you will satisfy him/her for all life…This aphorism of a Chinese wise man Lao-C runs out, scientists warn. If we want also in the future to eat fish, we have to adjust the aphorism and instead of fishing we have to learn to breed and keep fish. At present everyone in the world eat on average 17 kilograms of fish meat yearly (in the Czech Republic it is only five kilograms while in China 26 kg and in Japan 60 kg).

Czech vine-growers will get 71 million crowns for transformation ofvineyards

Czech vine-growers can ask again – after almost a year pause – for subsidies for restructuring and transformation of vineyards. 71 million crowns is allotted for them for this year. A spokesman of the State Agricultural Intervention Fund (SZIF) Vladimír Voráček said it to ČTK today. Vine-growers can use the financial support by maximally 75 percents of real costs for a change of variety composition of their vineyards, for outplanting of new bushes of grapevine, or for their protection against pests. Also it is possible to submit applications newly in frame of the Common market Organization (SOT) for purchase of winepresses or filters.

First Czech breweries switch to PET barrels in eastward export

First Czech breweries, for example in Rakovník, switch in eastwards export from expensive stainless barrels to one-way plastic ones. The reason is the fact that it is difficult to get back the expensive stainless contain ers, especially from Russia. A trade chief of Pivovar Rakovník, Jan Fabry, said it to ČTK. “Problems with returning of barrels will fall away. It is dealt with one-way plastic PET barrels which will be taken into account in the beer price and they will be entirely exported because Czech market is not prepared yet for it”, Fabry said. He sees a main advantage in that advance payments for containers, which the firm distributes in further regions, will fall away.

CR and Ukraine cooperation in agrarian sector

A cooperation in agrarian area in frame of preparation of a possible accession of Ukraine into the EU, a food quality and safety, a convergence of veterinary and phytosanitary standards in connection with the international trade, and agricultural technologies were a subject of negotiation with the Ukrainian deputy-ministress of agrarian policy Valentina Alexandrovna Zavalevska. The work meeting which on behalf of the Czech Republic was led by the 1st deputy minister of agriculture Ivo Hlaváč, paid attention also to bio-fuels and forest management.