Almost a quarter of all farmers who submitted applications last year for subsidies under the conditional support scheme did not receive the money because of attempted fraud. This was announced by Vasil Grudev, Executive Director of the State Fund..
The crisis caused by the coronavirus has brought farmers and stock breeders face to face with problems which threaten their very existence. Farmers are finding it more and more difficult to organize the work process in their farms and are..
Bulgaria's Agriculture Ministry has introduced a red button "Bulgarian production" on its website https://www.mzh.government.bg/bg/ in order to facilitate the consumer access to Bulgarian producers This is done to facilitate the contact with..
Many Bulgarian farmers complained that due to the closure of the cooperative and farmer’s markets in this country they will not be able to sell their produce and will have to throw it away. As a result, Bulgaria’s Premier Boyko Borissov has ordered..
In support of Bulgarian production, the State Agriculture Fund grants BGN 30 million (just over EUR 15 million) for short-term loans to producers of fruit and vegetables with field and greenhouse produce for the 2020 harvest. The loans will be..
Bulgaria has requested from the European Commission and the Bulgarian MEPs to reprogram the funds for the EU Rural Development program. The idea is to allocate around EUR 50 million to different areas to compensate farmers for the costs incurred due to..
Bulgaria has requested from European Commission to allow the implementation of a COVID-19 emergency measure in each of the programmes for supporting vulnerable farmers and food-processing workers. Bulgaria's Agriculture Minister Desislava Taneva has..
Greek farmers have started recurrent roadblocks to demand tax reductions and cheap fuels. The protest’s leader Stergios Litsos explained that the protesters aim to reach the border with Bulgaria at Promahon border checkpoint in the coming days...
Farmers from the eastern Rhodopes protest today near Bulgaria’s Kardzhali because of low milk purchase prices and non-payment of subsidies. In addition to the resignation of Minister of Agriculture Rumen Porozhanov, farmers also demanded that..
The countries from the Visegrad Group (the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Poland) together with Bulgaria, Romania and Slovenia share common position about the future agricultural policy of the EU. The farmers from those countries support the..
