"The year was difficult for all producers, a large part of the livestock farmers could not gather feed, even though there was some. Therefore, we initiated an initiative in cooperation with the Ministry of Environment and Water (MEW) and the Ministry of Agriculture and Food (MAF) and it is already a fact that the first working group for changing the mowing deadlines in the Natura 2000 network has been established," reported for Agri.BG Ventsislav Mitkov, chairman of the association "United Agricultural Producers."
He added that the aim is both for the farmers to be able to gather raw materials for feeding the animals and to limit the danger of fires.
Will the rules for grazing change the risk of fires?
"The idea is to make earlier mowing in these territories, one being that people will gather the good grass, and the other being that fires will be avoided. Because these bans in Natura 2000, for example, in Dragomansko, it is allowed from July 30, and by then everything is completely dried out and people enter not so much to gather the grass but..."