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Minister of AgricultureIng. Jan Fencl |
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Born on June 12, 1942 in Uherske
Hradiste, married since 1965, two children. After his graduation from the Brno College of Agriculture in 1964, Mr.Fencl began his carrer in 1965 as a cattle breeder with the Mistrin Standard Farming Co-operative and served as its Chairman from 1968 to 1974. He was then emloyed by the firm Agropodnik Hodonin and was appointed its Technical Director in 1987. After 1989 he was chairman of the farming co-operatives of Vnorovy and, later, until 1993, of Hroznova Lhota. Mr.Fencl has served since 1990 as Chairman of the Union of Farming Co-operatives and Companies; from 1990 to 1991, as the first President of the Czech-Moravian Agrarian Union;and since 1993, as Chairman of the Council of Economic and Social Convention. Since 1995 he has also held the office of Chairman of the Czech-Moravian Agrarian Confederation, President of the Agricultural Committee of the International Co-operatives' Union for Europe, and Vice-Chairman of the Confederation of European Agriculture for the Czech Republic. Mr.Fencl has been a member of the CSSD since 1996, and the Party's spokesman for agriculture. |