Vine-growers from Montana, Lom, Vratsa and Vidin temporarily blocked the E-79 road, and threw away grapes near the entrance of the town of Montana. The protest is organized by the National Association of Bulgarian Vine-Growers and is a..
The “Agriculture” Fund is launching on-site inspections of applications submitted for direct payments during campaign 2021. The inspections will be of land and livestock declared under different schemes and measures, for which applications for..
The discussion in Brussels on setting a limit to agricultural subsidies has created opposition between Bulgarian farmers. Grain producers have threatened to protest with tractors in front of the ministry of agriculture if the caretaker minister..
The first livestock census in Bulgaria was conducted in 1887, shortly after this country’s liberation from the Ottoman rule. In 1910, there were more than 8.6 million sheep in Bulgaria, or 2,000 sheep per 1,000 people. Back then, Bulgaria..
Bulgaria’s Ministry of Tourism has paid another EUR 4.4 million to tour operators and travel agents in the form of state subsidies. The money will be used to compensate passengers whose holiday packages have been canceled due to the Covid-19..
Not only state-run and municipal hospitals but private hospitals as well will be entitled to subsidies for standing in readiness to help in the event of the epidemic spread of Covid-19 . This decision was made by the National Assembly by force of..
Almost a quarter of all farmers who submitted applications last year for subsidies under the conditional support scheme did not receive the money because of attempted fraud. This was announced by Vasil Grudev, Executive Director of the State Fund..
The Ministry of Agriculture has regularly informed the European Commission of the results of the checks carried out of European schemes in Bulgaria financed by national and European funding. At a briefing Minister of Agriculture and Food..
Despite the ongoing crisis, the government is fulfilling its commitments to the Bulgarian producers, this country’s Premier Boyko Borissov commented in his Facebook page. Premier Borissov announced that Bulgaria’s State Fund Agriculture has paid..
