Summary of newspapers of the previous day – 16. 6. 2011

Farmers can ask for subsidies for technologies reducing ammonia air pollution

Interested people can ask for a support from the Operational Programme Environment (OPŽP) for investment in technologies reducing ammonia air pollution. The support was announced by the Ministry of the Environment by means of the State Fund of Environment of the Czech Republic (SFŽP). Farmers can use the support mainly to reduce ammonia air pollution from stables, pig and poultry farms, and also for purchase of technologies which reduce air pollution and can be used on dumps of farm fertilizers and in application of these fertilizers on fields.

Forests in EU cover 40 percents of land; in CR it is only 34 percents

Forests in the European Union cover about 40 percents of all land. It was revealed by published data of the European Statistic Office (Eurostat) over 2010. However, in the Czech Republic it is less, only about 34 percents. Nevertheless, concerning the country forestation, the Czechs are still considerably better off against Malta. There, forests or areas planted with trees covers less than 0,5 percents of land of this Mediterranean island. In the Netherlands it is only 11 percents; in Ireland and Britain identically 12 percents.

Sarkozy wants agricultural database from G20 countries

The French president Nicolas Sarkozy suggests so that ministers of agriculture of the most developed countries of G20 would agree on an introduction of agricultural database next week in Paris. It would collect and preserve pieces of information to which the market reacts sensitively. It would be dealt for example with state of food reserves. Sarkozy told it in front of representatives of agricultural organizations in the seat of Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) today.

Farmers will earn this year; prices grow

Czech farmers get paid for plant production better than last year. Prices are higher in cereals and rape; also the milk realization is improving. The situation in pigs is worse. The price from January to April remains at 26.60 crowns for kilogram of live weight which is less than in 1992. “It is a deep loss”, a chairman of the union Miroslav Jirovský, the chairman of Agricultural Union of the CR, said yesterday. According to him, a bad situation is also in poultry. In his words, prices of all agricultural commodities has got this year for the first time higher than they were before the accession of the Czech Republic to the Union.