A month before Easter, the trade in Bulgarian lambs does not go well

Lamb

Dairy

Meat

Bulgaria

Published Mar 23, 2023

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The failures in animal husbandry have long closed the foreign markets for Bulgarian lambs, and for several years the domestic market has been actively shrinking, which is a signal that within a few years another sub-sector of agriculture will be destroyed - it is about sheep and goat breeding. The forecasts are from two of the relatively large sheep breeders in the country - Vasil Nikolov from the city of Zemen and Boyko Sinapov from Kardzhaliysko, who is also on the board of the "United Bulgarian Livestock Breeders". Both are categorical in the planned failure of their native business, because after the country's entry into the EU, the administration works not in defense, but against the producers of Bulgarian meat and milk, therefore "our children in the future will eat bugs and worms instead of the delicious meat that can be produced in the country", commented Vasil Nikolov for Sinor.bg readers.

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The motives of the two farmers for the mistaken domestic market are also supported by the practice of the commercial chains, which with their thousands of additional requirements to the native business actually threw the originally native fruits and vegetables out of the consumer network. Now comes the turn of the livestock and dairy industry. "A month before Easter, the trade in Bulgarian lambs is not going well at all, and at the same time, the export of deep-frozen meat from North Macedonia is already being negotiated," said Boyko Sinapov. (ed. note. years ago this import was from Romania and where else) Most sheep farms that are ready to sell this spring offer a price of 12 BGN per kilogram of live lamb, because that is the only way they could cover their costs. At this moment, however, traders offer much lower offers - between 8 and 9 BGN per kg, with which they twist the arms of sheep farmers. All farmers give 18 months of life to Bulgarian livestock "Consumers ask why, at a ...

Source: Sinor