Summary of newspapers of the previous day - 21.7. 2010

Cucumber crop in Znojmo region will be worse than in last years

Cucumber crop in the region Znojmo will be worse than in last years. First of all the weather has a negative impact on the harvest quality. At first storm waters washed up plants in the spring, after that a drought came which cucumber like, but lastly the crop was damaged in some municipalities of the region Znojmo by a hail-storm. “The first problem was winter and rains in April. In some places we have tosow twice so cucumbers ripen unevenly”, a chairman of the cooperative Znojemská okurka, Zbyšek Dřevojan, stated. The cucumber situation in the region Znojmo is quite bad, according to him, and larger farms will harvest by 50 or 60 percents less than last year.

New regulation of Common Agricultural Policy should be fairer and should consider local needs

How to make the Common Agricultural Policy fairer and able to fulfill all social function after 2013? Over five thousand contributions met on this topic in an internet discussion; a two-day conference in Brussels summarized them and gives a material to think about during holiday to all interested and to the European Commission it sent data for a statement which should be issued in autumn. The Minister Fuksa wants to fight for fair conditions for Czech farmers, both the financial and legal-administrative.

Milk automatic machines in CR

Consumers do not always respect instructions how to treat with milk. A food nutrition benefit becomes more and more one of the main criteria which the consumer prefers in a choice and purchase of foods. Maybe just therefore the milk automatic machines experienced a big boom in European scale which is obvious also in the CR from 2009. Scientists from the Institute of Milk Hygiene and Technology of the Faculty of Veterinary Hygiene and Ecology at VFU Brno realize a research in which they focus not only on monitoring of parameters of milk from the automatic machines but also on behaviour of its consumers.

Lesy ČR will announce new tender after agreement with ministry

The state enterprise Lesy České republiky (LČR) has prepared contractual documents to a giant tender for forestry works and timber sale from 2011. According to a LČR spokesman Zbyněk Boublík, after negotiation with a new management of the Ministry of Agriculture the enterprise should announce the competition. The original tender criticized by politicians, ecologists, forest firms and the antimonopoly office LČR cancelled in half of May. LČR owns a half of forests in the country.