Summary of newspapers of the previous day – 13. 7. 2009

Harvest time came

Year met year and a farmer is again on a time threshold when he/she will balance his/her yearly effort. So, what is the situation before this year´s wheat and rape harvest? Results of CSO monitoring at time when I write these rows are not known yet. An attentive reader will be able to judge later how far my prognoses, even if I am not a forecaster, will differ from official numbers of the respectable office. But seriously. Four weeks ago it looked that this year´s harvest would start in the first decades of July and that thanks to drought it would be rather below average. However, on Friday, the 19th of June started to rain and it still rains.

EU enlarged support to milk producers; it considers also cheeses

Ministers of agriculture of European Union countries approved a prolongation of the present support to milk producers today. Czech minister Jakub Šebesta said it to journalists today. The European Commission already since this year´s March buys butter and dry milk from farmers who did not succeed to sell. A validity of this measure should end on the 31st of August, however, EU decided to enlarge it till the end of next year February, with a possibility of other prolongation by one year. Moreover, the Union starts to consider also enlargement of the support for cheese producers. Meanwhile only producers of the most expensive cheeses above all from France and the Netherlands get up to the export support.

Miko: Bringing rivers in natural state would cost 115 billion crowns

Costs for revival of water courses so that they would be able in floods to better withhold water, would be roughly 115 billion crowns. In a programme of Czech Television Otázky Václava Moravce it was presented by the Minister of Environment Ladislav Miko. Money should go mostly from the state budget, the European Union could contributed with roughly seven billion. According to data of the Ministry, about 45 000 kilometers of rivers, streems and brooks, whose basins changed in the past by unsuitable intervention of the men, need a revitalization. Bottom lands should be set again along the water courses, grown with original growths which will better withhold water in the landscape and decelerate a flood wave.

Harvest will be excellent, vine-growers luxuriate

This year´s versatile weather. Dryness, rains, humidity. In spite of vegetable growers rail against it, vine-growers happily rub their hands. Meanwhile, moulds avoid them from afar. Unless hails of some other disease woul d come, vine-growers can expect really good yields. They agree on it, however, with the same breath they ask themselves uncomprehendingly what all it means, when the check with fear

leaves on their vineyards after every rain. Grape mould nowhere. Despite the fact that the weather just hands off to its development. An anomaly which reputedly is not seen often. An incubation period of malign mould peronospora, which horrifies vine-growers, is only twenty four hours.