Summary of newspapers of the previous day – 18. 8. 2011

Harvest is slightly above-average; farmers should have higher profits than last year

Bigger amount of harvest and more advantageous buy-out prices of cereals promise an above-average year to Czech farmers. Portions of harvested fields and yields per hectare are in all items higher than in the same period last year. In spite of rainy weather in last days, farmers have succeeded to harvest almost all winter barley and rape. Already more than half of crop of winter wheat, which is the most often grown crop in the Czech Republic, is under roof.

Director of SZIF negotiated with a chairman of Czech-Moravian Union of Agricultural Entrepreneurs

A director of the State Agricultural Intervention Fund (SZIF) Oldřich Černoch continued also in this week on work meetings with non-governmental agricultural organizations. He met with representatives of the Czech-Moravian Union of Agricultural Entrepreneurs (ČMSZP) headed by its chairman Lubomír Burkoň. The cardinal topics of this meeting was solution of a significant overhang of applications in the 13th round of the Rural Development Programme (PRV), a prepared electronization of communication with the applicants and SZIF, and other topics connected with endowment administration of the Common Agricultural Policy.

Still less amount of cucumber is grown in south Moravia; there is lack of processors

Still less and less cucumbers are grown in south Moravia. Only against the last year, the acreage of areas under salad cucumbers and cucumbers for pickling has decreased at average by 33 percents. According to director of Vegetable Growing Union of Bohemia and Moravia, Jaroslav Zeman, the production fall has lasted already for several years and it is given by the fact that there is a lack of processors. Other reason is also the fact that large chain stores often import cucumbers for lower process. Statistics of the Czech Statistic Office (CSO) from the half of July tell that cucumbers for pickling are grown on the acreage 128 hectares in the region this year which is by 25.5 percents less than last year.

Cement honey can be problem

It is not a problem primarily veterinary; nevertheless, occurrence of so called cement honey can come out negatively in bee health secondarily. It is dealt with honey which develops after bees bring “medovice” (a substance from sweet aphid excrements from forest trees, mainly from larch). Owing to a high content of fast crystallizing trisacharide of melecitosa, so called cement honey develops. At first, it is not possible to draw this honey from honeycomb and secondly, bees can not use it well as food in winter time.