Summary of newspapers of the previous day – 18. 5. 2011

Numbers of bee-keepers increases in Moravian-Silesian region; interest in subsidies is big

Interest of bee-keepers surprised clerks of the Regional Office of Moravian-Silesian region who have announced for several times a subsidy programme for bee-keeping support. The region allotted for this programme two million CZK this year. This sum was spent immediately the first day when bee-keepers could ask for the subsidies. A spokeswoman of the Regional Office Šárka Vlčková informed on it. According to bee-keepers the increased interest is given by the fact that the number of bee-keepers have significantly raised in recent years.

Common care for forests in Europe should be governed by legally binding agreement

A legally binding agreement concerning forests in Europe, further problems of meeting of ministers of agriculture of G-20, conclusions of an enlarged advisory group for pig meat, or a progress and prospects of negotiations about Codex Alimentarius - these are some of topics of today´s negotiations of the Council for Agriculture and Fishery in Brussels on which Czech delegation was lead by the Deputy Minister of Agriculture Juraj Chmiel. In margin of the Council the Deputy Minister met also representatives of the European Commission to defense main priorities of Czech agriculture in the framework of a forthcoming CAP reform.

Subsidies for hops and cows will be. In spite of EU

The Ministry of Agriculture has decided that after reduction of national supplementary payments to farmers it will re-allot subsidies from funds of the European Union. Sensitive sectors in agriculture will not have to be afraid of not obtaining subsidies from the state. The Ministry of Agriculture has decided that even after cancellation of so-called national supplementary payments (Top-Up) in 2013 it will henceforth subsidize breeding of dairy and meat cattle, sheep, goats, and growing of hops and potatoes for starch production.

Czech Republic has succeeded. State and agricultural entrepreneurs will give less money for cattle testing for BSE

The permanent committee for food chain and animal health approved increase of age of cattle for BSE testing in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Poland today in Brussels. Till this time, cattle of age of 30, respective 24 months in slaughtered animals out of a slaughter had to be tested. However, from July the age limit for the examination will be more than double, the same as in most of EU states.