Summary of newspaper of the previous day – 20.4. 2009

G8: Fear of lack of foods will persist

Fear concerning security of food sufficiency for developing countries will persist owing to insufficient progress in fight against poverty and problems in harmonization of supply and demand. According to the agency Reuters it results from a communiqué proposal from a meeting of ministers of agriculture of a group of the industrially most developed states and Russia (G8) in Italy. A final version of the communiqué should be published on Monday. Ministers of agriculture negotiate in Italy about a strategy for security of food supplies and their prices stabilization. “We want leave this meeting with concrete facts, not only with words”, Italian Minister of Agriculture Luca Zaia declared.

Check of share of Czech foods

In last days the Agrarian Chamber of the region Ústí nad Orlicí and the Agricultural Union of the CR, a territorial organization in Ústí nad Orlicí, made a control purchases in supermarkets in the region – Tesco Ústí nad Orlicí, Billa Žamberk, Lidl Lanškroun, and Lidl Vysoké Mýto. An aim was to found out a share of representation of Czech and foreign products in a consumers supply before the Easter holiday when an assortment should be richer. Generally 1021 milk products (e.g. milk and its flavours, yogurts, cheeses) were monitored. 52 % of this number was Czech products and 48 % foreign.

Accession in the EU increase farmers´ profit, however, they want equal conditions

Czech agriculture is profitable thanks subsidies from the accession of CR in the EU; in years before the accession it was altogether loss-making. However, representatives of agrarian organizations point out in the long term unequal subsidy conditions for particular EU states. Farmers from old member countries take more money than their colleagues in new member states; nevertheless, markets in the new countries are free for them. Unequal subsidy conditions should be arranged in 2013. “Agriculture was the only sector which after the accession in the European Union did not have and still does not have comparable conditions for enterprise”, a chairman of the Agricultural Union of the Czech Republic Miroslav Jirovský said already earlier.

Huntsmen battle with numbers of over-multiplied game

Proprietary relations, a view of huntsmen as only hunters, and over- multiplied boars. These are the biggest problems with which huntsmen have to battle now. Many of these questions were discussed also by visitors in on Saturday opened breeding exhibition of hunting trophies, which is already traditionally organized by forestry schools in Písek. “Boars are hunted a lot at present. Therefore, everybody thinks that huntsmen are only hunters, and they imagine that they have freezers at home full of meat. However, before a huntsman shoots, he/she has to work for hundreds and hundreds hours and nobody sees that”, Miroslav Šatra, a head of environment department and VLHZ in Písek told.