Summary of newspapers of the previous day – 23. 9. 2009

Farmers: five billion CZK are missing for direct payments in 2010

More than five billion CZK are missing in a prepared state budget for next year for evening-up direct payments from national resources for farmers. A president of the Agrarian Chamber of the ČR Jan Veleba told at a special workshop in Žďár nad Sázavou today that at present situation when farmers fight with a fall in prices of milk, cereals and other commodities cutting of supports could contribute to endangering of their existence. Also the Agricultural Union of the CR requires evening up of so called top-up payments. The Union announced that the state could loosen about seven billion CZK for farmers for evening-up of direct payments from national resources on base of accession agreements in the EU next year.

Expiration of claims comes on

Holders of outstanding restitution and transformation claims have the only chance: to sue cooperatives. Although thanks to an amendment of the Senate of the ČR, the Parliament will deal once more with a proposal for prolongation of a time-limit for a release of restitution claims and transformation shares, it is not possible to suppose with the present political forces allocation that a postponement by other five year would be really passed in the Parliament. In practice it means that those who do not want to lose a chance of release of their property have to sue the obligatory persons. Already at the end of this year´s November a period for release of property to the first restituents and holders of transformation claims terminates, nevertheless, the definitive end of release of most of property claims will concern not until the spring next year.

Crisis hit even timber firms, several have already ended

Roughly ten percents of firms, members of the Moravian-Silesian Timber Cluster (MSDK), had to terminate their business owing to the economic crisis. Representatives of the cluster mentioned it in Ostrava today. “Firms from the branch do what they can to survive the crisis. However, several smaller firms had to end recently. Definitely, also a pressure of some banks showed itself. They are much stricter in lending money, eventually, sometimes they require a preterm redemption of loans”, a financial and organization directress of Mayr-Melnhof Holz Paskov Marie Wagnerová told. According to her mainly timber sellers have big problems.

FAO: Till 2050 world has to produce by 70 percents more foods

Regarding to an increase in population and higher incomes, the world will have to produce by 70 percents more foods by the half of this century than now. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) predicted it today on a base of presumption that by the year 2050 there will have been by 2,3 billion people more in the world. A yearly global demand for cereals used for food and feed production will have reached three billion tons by the 2050. Against the present production about 2,1 billion tons it would be more by almost 50 percents, FAO estimates. Meat production should increase by more than 200 million tons to 470 million tons yearly.