Summary of newspapers of the previous day – 5. 4. 2011

Commodity prices on corn-exchange still decrease

Commodity prices of the Corn-Exchange in Brno still slightly decrease. The most significant decrease in price is recorded in food rye, by 277 crowns for one tonne. In case that the transportation is paid by a buyer it costs almost 5000 crowns. It results from information published by the Corn-Exchange Brno today. Also a price of feeding pea decreases - by 165 crowns for one tonne. “The reason is above all the decreasing quality”, a general secretary of the Corn-Exchange Brno Karel Zezula said to ČTK.

Poles buy out sugar in Germany. EU “sweetened” it to them

In recent years, German-Polish borderland has been used to that mainly Germans went for cheaper shopping (especially of fuels) and services to the neighbours. However, in some commodities it turns. The east of Germany experiences newly incursions of Poles buying sugar en masse. This sweetener costs in Poland minimally twice as much as in the Federal Republic. German shops in the borderland have already had to approach to that they sell only several kilograms of sugar per person - if they have still some available at all.

BIO jogurt bílý “naše bio” Mlékárny Valašské Meziříčí obtained appraisal Czech bio-food of year 2010

Products of Mlékárny Valašské Meziříčí (dairy works) make a goal again and prove so their quality. The Food Chamber of the CR in cooperation with the PRO-BIO Union of Ecological Farmers have chosen in the category “Milk and milk products” the product BIO jogurt bílý “naše bio” Mlékárny Valašské Meziříčí as the best BIO product. The product is supplied in shops Billa. Generally, forty two products divided into six categories entered the competition: mill and baking products, milk and milk products, meat and meat products, beverages, fruit and vegetable products, and wine from organic grapes.

French eels already grow in Czech rivers

The EU wants to reinforce an eel population in European rivers by means of subsidies from the Operational Programmes Fishery. Overall, 811 kg of elver, so ell larvae, have been imported this year, for approximately 11 million crowns. Fishermen distributed the elver in rivers, brooks and rivers in the basin of Odra and Elbe in last March days. “A truck loaded with elver arrived at the Pstruhařství Kaplice, s.r.o. (a trout farm) on the 29th of March this year from France. The elver was unloaded immediately, weighted and distributed into prepared reservoirs.