Bulgaria: Plums and dessert grapes are doomed

Published Nov 8, 2022

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The Dobrudja Fruit Growers' Union in Bulgaria expresses dissatisfaction with the country's Strategic Plan of Agriculture, which plans to provide support for plums and dessert grapes at half the rate of other fruits. Dimitrichka Tarpanova, the vice-chairman, argues that this discrimination is unfair and could lead to the demise of these crops. She also criticizes the lack of transparency and industry understanding in the plan.

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Plum and dessert grapes are doomed in the new program period if something does not change. This is what Dimitrichka Tarpanova, the vice-chairman of the Dobrudja Fruit Growers' Union, said for Agri.BG. Vote: What are your average corn yields for 2022? "We are not satisfied with the support for plums and dessert grapes published in the Strategic Plan of Bulgaria. It is clearly written there that the rate will be 1/2 of the remaining fruits. Our wish was for them to be in a common group with the same rate", explains Turpanova. The following is written in Bulgaria's Strategic Plan for Agriculture on page 541: "We do not plan to continue the modulation in support, applied until now, because after an analysis of the structure of farms in the sector based on the application for the 2021 campaign as the most current, it was found that under both schemes for tied support for fruits, the percentage of beneficiaries who farm more than 30 ha does not exceed 1%. And regarding the area - it is ...

Source: Agri