Bulgaria: Livestock farmers protest due to cheap milk
Bulgaria
Published Apr 8, 2023
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With posters "Bulgarian farmers are dying", "Bulgarian milk for yellow pennies" and "Milk is cheaper than water", livestock farmers joined the protest of grain producers on the border with Romania. They insist on stopping the duty-free import of all animal products from Ukraine, Agri.BG learned. Follow the protest thread with us HERE "The Bulgarian land feeds the Bulgarian people" and "For pure Bulgarian food" the protesters also insist. Unfortunately, they are currently forced to sell below cost. Some farms are already bankrupt, others will survive, but at the expense of the gray sector. "How long will the dairies make a mockery of our labor?" the farmers ask. Farmers report that in the region of Haskovo and Sliven, the purchase price of cow's milk fell to BGN 0.60-0.75/l. Buffalo milk in Vrachansko is bought for BGN 1/l, and sheep's milk costs BGN 0.95-1.20/l. "Isn't this a killer for farmers when the price of concentrated feed is BGN 0.80-0.90?", producers ask rhetorically in a ...
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