Summary of newspapers of the previous day – 25.1.2010

Germans went out in streets because of dioxins. They want changes in agriculture

Thousand of protesters in the German city required changes in agricultural procedures in connection with the causa of detection of carcinogenic dioxins in eggs and poultry and pig meat. The agency Reuters informed on it. “Instructions concerning the environment and animals have softened in recent years. It is a danger for consumers - as we can see at the dioxin scandal - and something what they do not want”, Reinhild Benning from German branch of the movement Friends of Earth explained reasons for a protests in which 22 000 people participated, according to organizers. More realistic estimations spoke about approximately 10 000 participants.

France in head of G20 wants to solve food crisis

A solution of instability of global market with commodities will be the main priority of oncoming six-month French presidency of a group of the biggest economies G20. The president Nicolas Sakozy told it at an opening ceremony on Monday. Paris wants to use securing of sufficient amount of foods also as an argument for conservation of status quo of the common agricultural policy. “If we do nothing, we risk a spread of food commotions in the purest countries which will have very fateful impacts on the global economic growth”, the French president said to journalists.

There is surplus of hops, however, beer will not cheapen

“Drink beer!”, hop-growers in the region Přerov send for people. Just this crop plant had a record harvest last year. Even if rains and land waterlogging in the long term destroyed hops in some localities in the central Moravia, amount harvested in the region Žatec exceeded demand, Still in July, hop-growers estimated that the crop will be very bad owing to cold nights in May and June, and also repeated floods, rains and wet land. Finally, it holds only in several localities. For example in low situated hop-gardens close Domaželice , water got fused in one huge lake and remained here for a long time.

Area of winter rape increased to record 390 000 hectares

Farmers enlarged an area under winter rape by five percent year-on-yearly to record 390 704 hectares. On the contrary, an acreage of field sown by winter cereals for this year´s harvest decreased by two percents to 966 276 hectares. It results from an investigation whose results were provided to ČTK by the Ministry of Agriculture (MZe). “It is quite unambiguously given by a high price of the commodity”, the president of Agrarian Chamber Jan Veleba stated to the further enlargement of rape fields. According to him, areas under rape will likely to grow on also in the spring.