Bulgaria's Agriculture Minister Kiril Vatev has presented Bulgaria's problems with sunflower and milk powder to the EU Agriculture Council in Brussels. A good harvest is expected in Bulgaria, but due to the cheap import of sunflower and oil from..
A request for extending the measures against Ukrainian agricultural imports in five EU countries is to be submitted to the European Commission that will make the final decision, Minister of Agriculture Kiril Vatev has reported...
“The state will help grain producers find a market,” Agriculture Minister Kiril Vatev said for the BNR. "We shall do our best,” Minister Vatev said, and added that there is up to 60% more grain stocked up in warehouses than there was during the same..
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 temporary ban on the import of wheat, maize, rapeseed and sunflower from Ukraine in Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia has been extended by 3 months until September 15, 2023, the Ministry of Agriculture and Food said. The..
Bulgaria will be allocated around €10 million from the second EC financial package worth €100 million to help farmers in the countries most affected by duty-free imports of agricultural products from Ukraine. The aid was distributed between Bulgaria,..
The agriculture ministries of Bulgaria and Ukraine are beginning work on drafting joint mechanisms of action in the event of market disruptions, including abrupt changes in the prices of sunflower oil. Agreement on this was reached in Sofia by..
Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia had reached a deal in principle to allow the transit of Ukrainian agricultural products to resume, European Commission Vice President Valdis Dombrovskis was quoted as saying by BNR correspondent in..
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..
"The farmers' problem is not related to imports from Ukraine, which are minimal - 0.3% of Bulgarian production. This is the opinion of Georgi Angelov, senior economist at the Open Society Institute. "When Ukrainian grain imports are stopped, it will..
