OPEN DAY ATTHE STEKNlK FARM

摘要

On August 8,2012, the Hop Research Institute in Zatec organized an "Open Day" at its Research Farm in Steknik in cooperation with the Hop Growers Union of the Czech Republic. Ing. Jiri Koren, Ph.D., managing director of the Hop Research Institute in Zatec welcomed the guests in the courtyard of the farm. He informed them of new developments at the Institute, in particular the publication of an updated Czech-English atlas of hop varieties. The researchers had also contributed to the publication of theMinistry of Agriculture titled ..Situation and Outlook Report, Hops, Beer 2012", which was made available at the event. He passed the floor to the chairman of the Hop Growers Union of the Czech Republic, Ing. Bohumil Pázler, who analyzed the current situation in Czech hop growing. He touched on weather conditions, in particular black frost at the end of January and at the beginning of February, which did the hops no good. Ing. Vladimir Barborka (Central Institute for Supervising and Testing in Agriculture) provided information on the current acreage of hop fields.