Summary of newspapers of the previous days – 29.7. – 31.7. 2011

Mushrooms grow already in Ostrava region; certainty remain Jeseníky and Beskydy

A season of mushroom pickers in Ostrava region starts. Weather which surely does not pleasure people on holiday is favourable for mushrooms which will show itself, according to mycologists, already also this week. Both Moravian-Silesian mountains remain the bet for certainty. “There are not any big temperature differences between the night and the day. Moreover, it drizzles which surely does not pleasure farmers, but does mushroom pickers. However, it would need a little bit much sunshine”, a mycologist from Ostrava Helena Deckerová tells. She agrees with a mycologist from Kopřivnice Jaromír Durček on that this weekend will be good for mushroomers. However, it is necessary to look for on the right place. “Momentarily, mushrooms do not grow where you would look for in autumn. We have to rather go on an edge of mixed forest”, Durček advices.

Wine consumption and number of ecologically farming vine-growers increased last year

Vine-growers managed on approximately the same acreage as the foregoing year, however, the area of ecologically farming vine-growers has increased to 649 hectares. In the ecological farming sector in viticulture, approximately 14.5 million crowns were allotted and in the integrated production system 153 million crowns. It results from the “Situation development report grapevine and wine”. “The wine consumption in 2010 moved around 20 liters per person. For the future it can be supposed an increase in consumption of both the wine and the table grapes. An average price paid to agricultural producers was 16.30 crowns for one kilogram of must grapes which was by 4.30 CZK more than it the foregoing year”, the Minister of Agriculture Ivan Fuksa stated.

Czech vegetable-growers will get six million crowns owing to enteric bacteria

Czech vegetable-growers will get more than six million crowns (261 000 Euro) from the European Union as a compensation of losses caused by the occurrence of dangerous enteric bacteria EHEC in Europe. The European Commission informed journalists on it today. The EU will distribute 227 million Euro in total (almost 5.5 milliard crowns) among farmers as the compensation. The biggest part at all in the paid sum will be obtained by Spaniards whose farmers were originally under suspicion that the source of infection is just their products, concretely cucumbers. However, this information showed untrue in the end and as “the culprit” were marked seeds of fenugreek coming from Egypt.

Apricot crop: large farmers are disappointed

Some gardeners rub hands with satisfaction. They have trees heavy with apricots. However, high spirit does not reign everywhere. Such Patria Kobylí, the biggest apricot producer in the Czech Republic, grows orange fruits on 180 hectares. And, it does not want to express to this year´s results of its work. Of a worse crop already a low number of temporary workers, which work in the orchards, indicates. “We have about twenty to twenty five brigade-workers from close surroundings. The will pick apricots for still for about fourteen days. Than apricots and pears will follow”, an orchard manager of the company Patria, Michal Schovánek, said to Deník. He rather did not want to speak about the amount of harvested apricots