Minister of Agriculture and Food Desislava Taneva said that chain stores in the country are not responding to the proposal of the agriculture ministry for more products made in Bulgaria on the domestic market.
The Ministry of Agriculture proposed that local food producers be given access to every outlet of multinational chain stores. In Minister Taneva’s words it is not normal for chain stores to be selling fresh produce imported by trucks from third countries if the same products are produced just five kilometres away.
After the Bulgarian Food Safety Agency announced that yesterday it had intercepted five tons of tomatoes with a high concentration of pesticides, today it is continuing its inspections as Easter approaches.
On Saturday, the minimum temperatures in Bulgaria will be from 8 to 13C, in Sofia – 10C. During the day, cloudy weather will prevail. Rain is expected in the southwestern regions. A moderate wind will blow from the east-northeast. Maximum..
In economic terms, Bulgaria is highly dependent on carbon-intensive production and is particularly vulnerable to the risk of these productions being shifted to countries with weaker environmental standards, with the corresponding loss of jobs and a..
Currently, out of nearly 8,000 children deprived of parental care, just 850 have permission for full adoption. This was announced by Deputy Minister of Labor and Social Policy Ivan Krastev at a roundtable in Sofia, specifying that about 3,700 children..
Over the next 24 hours, cloud cover will be mostly significant. There will be rain showers in some areas of Western Bulgaria and the far southeastern..
Foreign Minister Georg Georgiev met Qatar’s Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Sultan bin Saad Al-Muraikhi , on the sidelines of the 80th session of..
Marina Gugusheva, who studies medicine at Sofia University St Kliment Ohridski, is spending a month at Zagazig University under an international exchange..
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