Czech Grain Harvest To Be Above Average
(CTK) -- Grain harvest in the Czech Republic will be above-average this year - at between 7.2 million and 7.5 million tonnes, compared with 2007's 7.153 million tonnes, according to Czech Agricultural Chamber estimates.
Owing to the high demand, prices can hardly be expected to fall. Grain prices in some cases even doubled last year against 2006, Josef Kubis of the Chamber said.
The good harvest expected this year can be ascribed to favourable weather and a larger crop area.
A better harvest is expected in the whole of the EU which after last year's dramatic growth in grain prices suspended the validity of a regulation saying that part of farmland be left fallow.
Czech farmers thus raised the winter cereals area by 2.3 percent, or 22,000 hectares, of land. Winter rape area increased by 7.3 percent (+24,000 hectares).
According to Czech Statistical Office (CSU) data, cereals were grown on 1.58 million hectares of land in the Czech Republic last year, and 337,600 hectares were planted with rape.
Owing to the high demand, prices can hardly be expected to fall. Grain prices in some cases even doubled last year against 2006, Josef Kubis of the Chamber said.
The good harvest expected this year can be ascribed to favourable weather and a larger crop area.
A better harvest is expected in the whole of the EU which after last year's dramatic growth in grain prices suspended the validity of a regulation saying that part of farmland be left fallow.
Czech farmers thus raised the winter cereals area by 2.3 percent, or 22,000 hectares, of land. Winter rape area increased by 7.3 percent (+24,000 hectares).
According to Czech Statistical Office (CSU) data, cereals were grown on 1.58 million hectares of land in the Czech Republic last year, and 337,600 hectares were planted with rape.