Summary of newspapers of the previous days – 19. – 21. 3. 2010

TOP-UP 2010: decided

A system of separated payments for ruminants through a livestock unit (VDJ) and cows without milk market production (KBTPM) and sheep and goats will stay maintained also this year, however, a distribution of particular envelopes will be changed detrimental to KBTPM and sheep and goats. According to our information, the Minister of Agriculture decided on it today. For KBPTM it is not favourable news certainly because the minister attached himself to the least favourable option for us, which was on the table. Failure of victory? From a view-point of huge pressures of some non-government organizations on that the KBTPM payment would be completely cancelled and all cattle would be supported only by one rate through VDJ the final decision can be considered as a success.

World water day

Already for the eighteenth time, experts at water management met on the occasion of the World water day. At this traditional meeting actual topics from the branch of water management are always discussed. Also educational activities are connected with the World water day. This year´s meeting was participated also by the Minister of Agriculture Jakub Šebesta. “Water management is an important branch to which is paid great attention at the ministry”, the minister Šebesta told. He added: “An actual topic, besides snow melting, is now especially an amendment of water law which was approved by the Chamber of Deputies in the third reading this week.

Owing to milk buy-out prices Senate recommend checks and sanction

Owing to a petition against low milk buy-out prices the Senate recommended the Ministry of Finances and the Antimonopoly Office systematic checks in food industry. The Ministry should always deduce corrections if it finds a breach of laws in force. The Senate decided on it today after discussion of a petition in which farmers require keeping of the law on prices and the law on protection of competition. Otherwise, there is a danger for farmers of liquidation of production of milk and milk products in the Czech Republic.

Teplý: New milk suppliers make themselves heard to Madeta

New suppliers from Vysočina and south Moravia contact the south-Bohemian dairy works Madeta, to which Mlékařské a hospodářské družstvo JIH will decrease milk deliveries by 200  000 liters daily from April. The dairy works negotiates new deliveries about 160 000 liters, a general director of Madeta Mlan Teplý said to Český rozhlas Radiožurnál today. He admitted that if it Madeta delivered milk from suppliers from remote areas, owing to cost increase for a transport it would have to increase prices of products. “One foreign dairy works reduces its production in Vysočina…and we will likely gain milk from here”, Teplý told.