Bulgaria’s Minister of Agriculture Kiril Vatev and his Ukrainian counterpart Mykola Solski agreed to exchange data on exports and imports of certain agricultural products in a regular manner. This became clear at an online meeting between the two..
Bulgaria, alongside another four European countries – Poland, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia – are seeking an extension of the ban on imports of Ukrainian products until the end of the year. The five countries want flexibility of the list of..
The spring crops - maize and sunflower - in most parts of the country is poor , and in some places even alarming, reports BNR correspondent in Dobrich Maya Shcherbanova. Farmers' forecasts are for extremely low yields, close to those of the critical year..
Bulgaria's Agriculture Minister Kiril Vatev has presented Bulgaria's problems with sunflower and milk powder to the EU Agriculture Council in Brussels. A good harvest is expected in Bulgaria, but due to the cheap import of sunflower and oil from..
The EU is expected to earmark a total of EUR 100 million for farmers in countries affected by imports of Ukrainian grain and food. Bulgaria is expected to receive EUR 9.77 million , a source from the European Commission told the BNR...
Nearly 642,000 tons of Ukrainian grain have been imported in Bulgaria since the start of the Black Sea Grain Initiative ( July 2022-March 2023 ) , show data of the National Customs Agency provided to BNR under the Access to Public..
Grain producers from all over the country are threatening protests within two weeks. They plan to block off major thoroughfares in Bulgaria, the members of the board of the National Grain Producers Association decided at a meeting today, BNR’s Maya..
A good wheat harvest – around 7 million tonnes – is what Bulgarian wheat producers are expecting, the standard annual wheat yield being around 5 million tonnes, outgoing Minister of Agriculture Ivan Ivanov says. Though the outlook is..
Bulgaria is to spend over half a billion euro on the purchase of wheat, sunflower and corn in order to replenish its reserves, Minister of Finance Assen Vassilev said after the cabinet meeting. He pointed out that there was no..
