Bulgaria: Oat, rye, and triticale producers cut off from Ukrainian aid expect compensation

Published Apr 26, 2024

Tridge summary

Small farmers in southern Bulgaria, who are the main producers of rye, oats, and triticale in mountainous and semi-mountainous regions, are not eligible for Ukrainian aid due to these crops being excluded by European legislation. They are struggling with the lack of compensation as they suffer the same adversities as other grain producers due to falling prices and competing imports. The National Association of Grain Producers (NAZ) is preparing a list of issues to present to the Minister of Agriculture, Georgi Tahov, and is considering the possibility of compensation under state aid 'de minimis.' The NAZ is also planning to discuss other requests related to the implementation of changes in the Strategic Plan and the Campaign for Direct Payments 2024.

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Original content

After in March of this year, small farmers from a number of mountainous and semi-mountainous regions in southern Bulgaria found out that they would not receive Ukrainian aid under the temporary framework, because they mainly grow rye, oats and triticale (which European legislation excluded from support), the problem of lack of compensation for them it remains unresolved. "A large number of my colleagues sent letters to the previous Minister of Agriculture, Kiril Vatev, with which the current acting Minister Georgi Takhov is also familiar, so we hope for a solution, since in the disadvantaged areas we are mainly small and medium-sized farmers who, due to the collapse in prices for wheat, barley and other crops, we suffer the same adversities as our colleagues, and last year we did not manage to sell oats, rye and triticale, which we mainly produce on these disadvantaged areas", said Georgi Todorov, a farmer from the Assenovgrad village of Iskra, for Sinor.bg. The European ...

Source: Sinor