Summary of newspapers of the previous days – 8. – 10. 1. 2010

Don´t us deny farmers what belongs them

The Private Agriculture Association of the CR does not agree with strengthening of a budget of the Ministry of Agriculture of the CR by 1,5 billion crowns from the state budget for subsidies top-up which was approved in the Parliament. Ing. Josef Stehlík presented it in the daily Zemědělec No. 1-2/2010. However, this opinion is incomprehensible, therefore I react to it. As a citizen and tax-payer I feel fully the problem of indebtedness of the Czech Republic, despite the fact it is not possible to waste on many sides, not to solve a reform of retirement system and health care, to build the most expensive communication in Europe, an on the other side to deny farmers what it belongs to them fully.

Eco-farmers will be checked newly also by state institute ÚKZUZ

Ecological farmers, a number of which annually increases year by year in the Czech Republic, will be checked also by the Central and Experimental Agricultural Institute (ÚKZUZ) from this year. The Ministry of Agriculture informed on it today. Till this time, they were supervised by only three private control subjects. Inspectors of ÚKZUZ will check roughly five percents of the total number of eco-farmers throughout a year, so about 130 subjects. “From the joining of the state control body we expect mainly increase of transparency of checks and a possibility to react faster to possible deception of consumer or unauthorized spending subsidy means”, the Minister of Agriculture Jakub Šebesta stated.

Bio-foods the hottest trend in gastronomy for year 2010

A survey of American Culinary Federation (ACF). Bio-foods were evaluated as one of the hottest culinary trends for the year 2010 in a survey among more than 1800 professional cooks from the American Culinary Federation (ACF). The survey with the name “Hot news” revealed that 73 % of cooks from ACF determined ecological products as a hot gastronomic trend for the year 2010. Bio-coffee was chosen as the second “hottest” trend among hot non-alcoholic beverages, and bio-beers, wines and spirits placed also among trends in a category of alcoholic beverages for the next year.

ČMSM: Milk price will not grow in next months; it can even decrease

The milk price will not rather grow in next months. An executive director of the Bohemian-Moravian Dairy Union Michal Němec said it to ČTK. According to him even a repeated fall of milk prices can be expected. The biggest world milk traded, New Zealand company Fonterra, decreased prices of dry full-cream milk this week at average by more than seven percents for the period from March 2010 to September. At the same time, milk buy-out prices after foregoing record fall in last months slightly increase, despite the fact according to farmers they are not still able to cover their production costs.