Checks along the merchant-processor-producer chain will establish the reason for the unreasonably high final prices of basic food products in stores, Minister of Agriculture Kiril Vatev has said. Milk producers told BNR that in..
June 28 is the day on which the harvest campaign for 2023 in Bulgaria officially opens. Traditionally, the start is given in the fields of one of the representatives of the Association of Grain Producers from a different region. This year the..
A month before the start of the wheat and barley harvest, farmers are not happy that they will have suffered losses by the year’s end. Because of the duty free imports of grain from Ukraine prices have plummeted, the warehouses are full and farmers do..
The European Commission is offering a package of measures and a second tranche of financial aid to resolve the situation on the agricultural market in Bulgaria, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary and Romania , Bulgaria's Ministry of Agriculture announced. The..
Farmers from all over the country blocked the border crossings near Kardam and the Danube bridge near Ruse for 3 hours until 1 p.m. The protest is against the uncontrolled import of cheaper products from Ukraine. Over 100 tractors blocked a..
Grain producers from all over the country closed roads to the "Danube Bridge" border crossing near Ruse with tractors and long queues of trucks formed as a result. Protesting farmers have one main demand - stopping the import of..
President Rumen Radev holds a working meeting today with representatives of the Bulgarian grain producers, the press office of the head of state reported. It is expected that Minister of Agriculture Yavor Gechev will also join the talks, BTA has..
Bulgarian farmers said that they want the cabinet to take urgent measures to impose a veto on duty-free import of agricultural products from Ukraine. Earlier today they protested with short blockades of the approaches to the border crossing with..
President Rumen Radev has raised the issue of duty-free grain imports from Ukraine with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and EU Council President Charles Michel , Mr Radev told journalists. Farmers' protest blocks border with..
Bulgaria stands in solidarity with Ukraine and Ukrainian producers. Together with the EU, it has supported solidarity corridors as a tool to help fight hunger across the world. But these corridors are a channel for unprecedented..
