Bulgaria needs a strategy for the production and processing of lavender

The trend both in Bulgaria and worldwide in the new year will be to increase the use of the expensive oils in the food industry. Therefore, in order to achieve good sales, farmers will have to give up all efforts to compromise on quality, said Gergana Andreeva, executive director of the Bulgarian Association of Essential Oil Crops, Perfumery and Cosmetics. The harvests of oil roses and lavender obtained in the country in 2020 are of very high quality. This is one reason for experts to expect good sales of the products in the new year, but no one takes it upon themselves to make a prediction of what will happen to the older tons of dubious quality lavender oil that has been produced in the past 2- 3 years have been produced. Such products can be used in aromatherapy, but not in perfumery and cosmetics. Both in the food industry and in the pharmaceutical industry, the requirements for the quantitative and qualitative indicators of the raw material used are very strict. New broad ...