Summary of newspapers of the previous day – 30.6. 2011

Farmers in Pilsen region buy more agricultural machines than last year

Recovery of agricultural machinery sale was reported against last year almost by all machinery sellers at the biggest regional agricultural exhibition in the region Pilsen in Hadačka at Kralovice. The reason is mainly significantly higher buy-out prices which farmers got for crop-plants from the last harvest against the amount of money obtained from sale of production from 2009. However, some of them still wait how this year´s harvest will turn out. The interest of viewers and firms is every year higher; this year, 120 firms arrived and the attendance will be certainly higher than last year´s 5000 people. It was said to ČT by Jaroslav Bulín from Kralovická zemědělská which organized the action focused on machinery and plant and animal production already for the ninth time.

Statement of ACH CR to stopping of state land sale through LF CR

On the 24 June this year the Land Fund of the CR (LF CR) stopped with immediate effect sale of state land according to § 6,7,8 of the law No. 95/1999 Col., on sale of state land which diction governs sale of land to 30-year installments, with an argumentation that according to the Ministry of Agriculture it is possible from the side of the European Commission to consider interest-free installments as hidden public support to the state.

Farmers sowed less amount of poppy; it can be lacking

A poppy seed buy-out price moves this year according to 25 crowns which is according to farmers below production costs. On many places in the region Havlíčkův Brod, fields are covered with white carpet of flowers. Despite the fact that this year´s poppy crop has not been damaged much by weather whimsies or diseases, in the end, this popular food can be lacking. “We have two hundred and twenty hectares of poppy this year which is against the last year a decrease by some fifty hectares. The reason is for the present quite unfavourable poppy price. It moves now about twenty five crowns which is below production costs”, Vratislav Šimůnek from Osiva in Havlíčkův Brod said. This firm managed poppy fields near Pohled and Přibyslav.

Decrease in agricultural incomes in Switzerland

According to the first trend estimations, experts from the Research Institute Agroscope predicted that last year in comparison with the foregoing year incomes from agricultural production decreased in Switzerland. Preliminary results documented that average incomes of agricultural businesses in amount 56 000 CHF (c. 43 606 €) were lower than in 2009 when they amounted to 60 000 CHF (c. 46 721 €). Farmers did not reach the higher incomes nor thanks to higher direct payments and lower costs.