“The wheat yield in 2021 is 52% higher than the previous year when grain production faced a series of problems. Wheat production reached 7.16 million tons, which makes it the best year for the sector in Bulgaria since 2017,” Minister of Agriculture Hristo Bozukov said at a meeting of the Consultative Grain Council.
The samples taken show that the yield is of a quality which meets the requirements of the milling industry for the production of high-quality flour. An increase has also been registered in barley production – by 27.2%, and in rapeseed production, which is 36% up on 2020.
An unusual opening of the new school year was made by the students and teachers of the Bulgarian school "Asen and Ilia Peikov" in Rome and Florence. The event was attended by the Ambassador of Bulgaria to Italy H.E. Kostadin Kodzhabashev, as well as..
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St. Sophia - the church that gave the Bulgarian capital its present-day name - is dwarfed by St. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral , which towers in the centre of the square of the same name. With its white façade, gleaming gold and green domes and beautiful..
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