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“The amount provided for national co-payments for agriculture in budget 2012 is by BGN 230 mln less than expected,” announced Miroslav Naydenov, Minister of Agriculture and Food, for Klassa after the regular meeting of the Cabinet yesterday. He explained that for 2011 some BGN 370 mln had been allocated for national additional payments per unit area, along with some BGN 70 mln in subsidies for tobacco growers, which made a total of BGN 440 mln. In the state financial framework for next year, merely BGN 340 mln are envisaged. "I [...]

Grain Service concluded that 55 per cent of the harvested wheat has very good baking qualities Wheat harvesting is nearing completion, with slightly over 4 million tonnes gathered from 93.99 per cent of the 1,053,542 hectares under wheat by August 3, the Directorate General for Agriculture, Forests and Land Tenure with the Agriculture Ministry said on Thursday. The average yield is 4,050 kg/ha. Yields were highest in the following regions: Silistra 4,890 kg/ha, Pleven 4,700 kg/ha, Dobrich 4,680 kg/ha and Razgrad 4,650 kg/ha. Preliminary grading done by July 28 shows [...]

The protestors demanded immediate disbursement of the complementary national payments to all agricultural producers Grain producers have sent a letter to Prime Minister Boyko Borissov, informing him that some of the deadlines set down in the last agreement signed between them and the state in the face of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food in March have not been kept. On Tuesday the Chairman of the National Association of Grain Producers, Radoslav Hristov, said that grain producers are expecting immediate and concrete actions, which will lead to fulfilment of the [...]