After notification from the EU, 5% of the unspent budget of the RDP will be additionally allocated to farmers in Bulgaria

Published Jun 28, 2022

Tridge summary

The Ministry of Agriculture in Bulgaria has declined to provide digital forecasts for the grain harvest this summer, but expects it to be good, with average yields similar to the record-breaking harvest of 2021. The Minister of Agriculture, Ivan Ivanov, announced that Bulgaria has sufficient wheat stock for both domestic consumption and export, maintaining the 11th place in the world for wheat exports. The government has provided assistance to the agricultural sector during the COVID crisis and the war in Ukraine, with more support planned from the European Commission. A change is expected in the regulation to redistribute 5% of unspent funds from the Rural Development Program to pay farmers 33 million euros, a change that is expected to happen in July.
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For the first time at the opening of the harvest campaign, the administration of the Ministry of Agriculture does not give digital forecasts for the grain harvest this summer. The host of this year's start in the harvesting of barley, rye and wheat was the Thracian Union of Grain Producers, which this year chose the Stara Zagora village of Bozduganovo. The traditional harvesting of rye under the international project "Bread of Peace", in which NAZ has been participating for 9 years, was made there today. The resigned Minister of Agriculture Ivan Ivanov and his Deputy Stefan Burdzhev were invited for the first harvest. The RDP Monitoring Committee will meet on July 11 In front of the gathered farmers, Ivanov announced that "a good year is ahead for the wheat harvest, as the average yields will be close to last year's harvest." Recall that the record in 2021 was for 6.3 million tons of grain. Ivanov recalled that the main priority of the leadership of the Ministry of Agriculture was ...
Source: Sinor

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