Bulgarian fruit and vegetable business relies on Ukrainian aid for the third year

Published 2024년 4월 8일

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Bulgarian fruit and vegetable producers are grappling with a series of challenges for the third year in a row, including adverse weather conditions, economic impacts from the pandemic, and the war in Ukraine. The government's efforts to foster cooperation among producers are seen as too little, too late, with a lack of necessary financial support. The situation is worsened by the EU's decision to support Moldova by purchasing its entire prune crop, effectively shutting Bulgarian producers out of key markets in Romania and Germany. This, combined with a destroyed peach crop, has left Bulgarian farmers struggling. Efforts are being made to address these issues at the governmental level, with evidence of Moldovan exports presented to the Bulgarian Minister of Agriculture in hopes of influencing future aid negotiations.

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Before the covid crisis, no gardener or fruit grower in Bulgaria would have thought that they would be entirely dependent on state and European support, as is happening for the third year in a row on the domestic market. The extremely unusual cold, which persisted for several springs in a row, plus the economic crises that followed the pandemic and the war in Ukraine worsened the situation. Therefore, today the representatives of the branch are categorical that, against the background of the ongoing military actions, the state's attempts to encourage agricultural producers to cooperate are hopelessly late. And this opinion is supported not by one or two, but by thousands of Bulgarian fruit and vegetable producers, according to whom our country should have taken action in support of such an association even with its accession to the EU. We sought comments from two of the annual fruit producers from Sliven, Kosta Petrov, regional chairman of the Bulgarian Chamber of Fruits and ...

Source: Sinor