Summary of newspapers of the previous day – 6.4.2010

Parties promise more righteous agricultural subsidies and country support

More righteous endowment conditions for Czech farmers are required in election programs of absolute majority of parties which have a chance, according to latest surveys, to get in the Parliament. Parties without exception of politic orientation present altogether further that they want to support the life in countryside and to prevent from its further depopulation. Subsidies for farmers in countries that joined the EU after 2004 are still lower than for their colleagues from old member states. The height of basic subsidies should be evened up after 2013, however, Czech organizations warn that neither after the date they will be subsidized so generously as their colleagues from west of Europe.

Cereals cheapen on corn-exchange; pea and rape raised in price

Prices of commodities traded on the Corn-exchange in Brno stagnate. In majority of cereals the price has decreased slightly regularly already for several weeks. Vice versa, other commodities as for example pea or rape have slightly raised in price. Differences in prices moves in a range from minus one to two percents from the last exchange meeting two weeks ago, a general secretary of the exchange Karel Zezula said to ČTK today. Businessmen recorded the biggest increase, by as many as 126 crowns for tonne, in rape. In FCA parity, when a transportation is covered by a buyer, a tonne costs now 7  119 crowns. In DPP parity, when a transportation to a place of destination is paid by a seller, it is then 7 320 crowns for a tonne.

Bird flue, still hot topic

Although there has been calm in our republic for longer time, it is good to count on a risk of bird flu importation. Especially in the spring period. Our breeders keep biological safety policy and it is good. By the way, extraordinary veterinary measure are still in force, on base of them it is necessary to announce all suspicious changes in poultry breedings to a veterinary administration. Deaths, decrease in performance and in feed consumption. That the aviary influenza , bird flu, still exists in the environment is witnessed by information from Denmark, Bulgaria and Romania. At the end of March, an occurrence of low-pathogenic types of aviary influenza H7 was recorded in 3 700 pieces of poultry in Denmark.

Lynx will not domesticate soon in the Czech Republic. Poachers do not mercy upon them

The endangered northern lynx has ideal conditions for life in Jeseníky, despite the fact a number of these animals does not increase in open air. Employers of the Administration of protected landscape area Jeseníky think that an illegal hunting of this animal is the cause obstructing its wider enlargement in the Czech Republic. Although the lynx belongs to original species of our fauna, owing to a gradual landscape deforestation and hunting it was extirpated in the Czech Republic in the 19th century. 17 lynxes were set free in open air in Šumava in 80´s of the last century which became a base of new population of these beasts of prey.