Summary of newspaper of the previous days – 22. – 24. 5. 2009

Russia plans reduction of its dependency on poultry import

Russia invests billion dollars in poultry farms development. Thereby it wants to reduce its dependency in poultry meat import whose most of it originated from the United States. The agency Reuters informed on it. Loans for the plans will be provided by Russian banks. Last year, the USA exported to Russia almost quarter of its poultry meat determined for export. However, Russia wants now to force this United State food industry branch in value of 55 billion dollars (c. trillion CZK) to look for new sales area. By 2012 Russians plan to reduce the import to a half.

A new vice-president of Food Chamber is Jaroslav Kurčík

A new vice-president of the Food Chamber of the CR and a member of its presidency is a general director of bakeries Penam Jaroslav Kurčík (39). In the function he replaced Emil Kasper, a former executive director of the company Maso Planá. ČTK was informed on it by the Chamber press agent Dana Večeřová. Penam and Maso Planá belong in the group Agrofert of Andrej Babiš.

Farmers want to support milk consumption by a marching to Sněžka

Rougly 50 to 70 farmers is going to sett of on Sněžka on Saturday. By this action which will end with a milk toast on the top of the highest Czech mountain, farmers want to encourage the public to bigger consummation of Czech milk products. One of organizers of the march, Jiří Burdych, said it to ČTK. According to Burdych, bigger milk consumption will help the best to increase of low milk buy-out prices. A fall in milk buy-out prices has lasted for more than half-year and breeders got from dairy works at average about six crowns for a liter. However, costs for production of liter of milk exceed eight crowns. Farmers present that in comparison with the last year they loose about half a billion crowns monthly. The milk market stagnates also in other European countries.

Gap in approach to land

A successful agrarian mission in Israel Agritech 2009 took place on days from 4th to 10th of May. I had the honour to lead it by request of Israel embassy in Prague. There were many important celebrities in the forty-member group of travelers, starting from the rector of Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague prof. Ing. Jan Hron, CSc., through chief of state departmental institutions as the State Agricultural Intervention Fund, the State Agricultural and Food Inspection, the Institute of Agricultural Economics and Information, regional councilmen to farmers and managers of agricultural enterprises. Israel is a significant and interesting country. There lie roots of civilizations, nevertheless, its agriculture is something unambiguous and it is worth to deal with it and learn it.