Farmer: Bulgaria imports more tomatoes than bananas

Vegetable production is becoming an increasingly doomed type of production, practice shows. Not only the climate, but also the administrative burden and the pressure of imported production are refusing more and more producers to engage in this type of agriculture. "Dozens, and perhaps hundreds, of vegetable growers in Burgas, who have ceased their activities in the last few years", Nikolay Nedyalkov, who until recently was the chairman of the Association of Vegetable Growers in Southeast Bulgaria. Out of 142 members since its founding more than 13 years ago, today only three vegetable producers are members of the organization, he pointed out. Nedyalkov himself, who is an agronomist by education and has grown his own plantations for many years, also left the business. "At the moment, I am engaged in raising bee colonies. I have hives. I grew 240 decares of vegetables, today the fields are empty," he told BTA. According to him, Bulgarian vegetable production covers a very small ...