Summary of newspapers of the previous day – 29. 10. 2009

Supreme Court of Slovakia forbade firm Dajk to use name Becherovka

A company Dajk from east Slovakia did not have right to use a name, reminding a product of the company Jan Becher – Karlovarská Becherovka (JBKB), for its herb liqueur. The Supreme Court of Slovakia decided on it today and confirmed a sentence of the regional court in Prešov passed seven years ago. A spokesman of the Supreme Court, Peter Préti, informed on it today. According to him an appeal is not admissible. The company produced so called Slovakian Becherovka on base of a licence contract bought from Zdeněk Hoffman´s mother. Hofmann claimed that he was a heir of recipe for herb liqueur because his grandfather got rights for trademark Johann Becher in 1939 by a deed of gift.

Farmers´ protests has started, field swallow thousands liters of milk

A nation-wide protest of farmers against low milk buy-out prices has started in the Czech Republic. On Thursday morning, farmers in the Czech Republic opened the protest against low milk buy-out prices. The first who poured out milk on fields were milk producers in Ústí nad Orlicí and in the region Blansko near Lysice, 30 000 liters of milk, in protest against its low buy-out process. In Ústí, about hundred farmers met, they brought slogan banners, a foam cow protruded on a van. They poured out about 1000 liters of feeding milk from a tank on a street. A pile of potatoes was available in front of a building of the Ministry of Agriculture workplace.

Standpoint of Ministry of Agriculture to protests in form of milk outpour

A problematic situation in milk sector is solved by the Ministry of Agriculture (MZe) since the very beginning when problems appeared in this branch. We are aware of the difficult situation in which milk producers are already for a longer time. However, MZe supports maximally all steps which are tasked to solve the burdensome situation of farmers producing milk. Nevertheless, we are sorry that the problematic situation in milk sector is even more escalated by protests actions which, in our opinion, do not bring solutions and only devaluate precious raw material, The CR counts on a support of milk market also by means of the article 68 from 2010.

CSO: Meat production and milk purchase decreased again year-on-year

In the third quarter, year-on-year meat production decreased by 6,9 percents to 138 488 tons. Production of beef , pig and poultry meat decreased. Milk buy-out decreased by 2,8 percents to 579,3 million liters of milk. It results from today´s data of the Czech Statistic Office (CSO). Pig meat production decreased by 10,7 percents to 68 881 pieces year-on-year in the third quarter. An average slaughter weight increased by 0,7 percents to 87,2 kilogram. CSO found out a year-on-year decrease in poultry meat production by 1,4 percents. According to statisticians in concurrence to development of cattle slaughters, beef meat production including veal decreased by 6,3 percents to 18 461 pieces