Tsvetan Tsekov: The situation with the black poplar beetle is similar to the case of the leopard in animals.

The situation with the black locust beetle epidemic is similar to the leopard print on animals. Only there it is very visible, while in fruit farming there is a gradual hidden process and many small producers do not advertise at all, but outright abandon production. This became clear from the words of Tsvetan Tsekov, Chairman of the Branch Chamber "Fruits and Vegetables." "We have very big problems with this insect, which is destroying the gardens everywhere – both stone fruit and seed fruit. On our initiative, we managed to cause meetings and a work program for protection to be made, but there is a big deficit of actually working preparations and also, despite the promises, the Ministry of Agriculture could not fulfill its promise to have funding for these treatments. A commitment has been made since spring to have such a program. We have even now been acclimatizing a new working group. And when we count the gardens in the spring, I am sure that we will have a huge percentage of ...