Bulgaria: It is not possible for water that flows through one irrigation channel to be paid at two prices with a 6-fold difference

The Director of Irrigation Systems has promised to consider the idea of lower prices for irrigation water that is used in a way that realizes savings Recently, in Plovdiv, farmers from the district met with people who manage the movement of the precious water. On the initiative of MP Mladen Shishkov, the director of "Irrigation Systems" EAD Snezhina Dineva, the director of the Plovdiv branch "Maritsa" Kostadin Cholakov, the director of the Basin Directorate "Eastern White Sea Region" Vasil Uzunov, experts and farmers gathered in the regional directorate "Agriculture". Drought, water and its price - these were the topics discussed, said Svetoslav Rusalov - a grain producer and former chairman of the National Association of Grain Producers (NAZ). The subject of the price of irrigation water is important, because at some point, and God forbid it will be sooner, if the war in Ukraine stops, the state aid for irrigation will also be stopped. "Currently, rice growers as major consumers ...