Bulgaria: A 10% jump in the price of rice, 95% of domestic production is exported

Rice farmers expect to receive the money to compensate for the increase in water soon. This would reduce the cost of producing them so expensively. The industry claims that over 95% of Bulgarian rice is sold abroad, and we eat cheap produce from Vietnam and Myanmar. "The problem with the cost of irrigation of paddy fields is very big and has been for several years. In two years, the price of water for rice irrigation has increased by more than 50 percent. For other irrigated crops - the price jump is 300 percent". Georgi Vidolov, ...