Georgi Takhov: Licenses for imports from Ukraine do not work, we are looking for a way to make them disappear

"The state tried to influence business processes with an administrative approach and made a mistake," the Minister of Agriculture and Food, Georgi Tahov, categorically stated before the MPs from the Committee on Agriculture, Food and Forestry in the Parliament, in response to a question from Yane Yanev, chairman of the Association of Producers of vegetable oils, whether the licenses for the import of sunflower and cereals from Ukraine can be dropped. "Bulgaria is not the only country that imposed restrictions on the import of grain products. These are 5 countries - Bulgaria, Romania, Slovakia, Hungary and Poland. They imposed a ban on grain imports, the general presumption being excessive imports. For our country, the question was about the sunflower, that through this import, our grain producers could not get the real market price, according to them at that time. But sunflowers and most cereals are commodities. This is a vivid example of how when the state tries to influence ...