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This year's harvest in Czechia was one of the fastest in recent years, Agriculture Minister Marek Výborný said on Saturday at the annual agriculture trade fair Země živitelka in České Budějovice. Farmers have already harvested 99.8 percent of all grain and sugar beet.

However, the Czech Agrarian Chamber says this year’s grain harvest, which amounted to 7.086 million tonnes, was the second worst in the last 12 years. The rapeseed harvest reached 961,500 tonnes, which is the lowest figure since 2003. According to the chamber, farmers will lose CZK 7 billion in revenues from grains and oilseeds.

Czech kayakers Josef Dostál and Anežka Paloudová won the bronze medal in the mixed 500m double kayak even at the ICF Sprint World Championships in Samarkand, Uzbekistan on Saturday.

The Czech couple, who got engaged in June, finished less than a second behind the winning Portuguese duo Teresa Portela and Messias Baptista.

The newly crowned Olympic champion Dostál is also set to compete in the men’s 500m final on Sunday, while his fiancée will appear in the final of the mixed four event and in the women’s 5000m race.

A new opinion poll by the Median agency suggests that ANO would receive 33 percent of the votes in a general election held in July. The Civic Democrats would come second with 14 percent, and the Mayors and Independents would be third with nine percent voter support, the survey indicates.

Some eight percent of respondents in the Median poll said they would back the Pirate Party, a month-on-month drop by 2.5 percent. Freedom and Direct Democracy would also get eight percent and Oath would receive a five percent voter support. No other party would cross the 5 percent threshold needed to win seats in the lower house.

The Czech crown strengthened against both the euro and the US dollar today, rising to 25.05 CZK/EUR and by 16 haléřs to 22.41 CZK/USD. The koruna’s gain was supported by a weakening US dollar and the prospect of lower interest rates in the US. Jerome Powell, the Chair of the US Federal Reserve, signaled at the Jackson Hole symposium that it might be time to reduce interest rates, citing decreased inflation risks and rising concerns over employment. This outlook contributed to the crown's strong performance, keeping it close to the 25 CZK/EUR mark.