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Hundreds of farming equipment and machines are piled up at the cross border checkpoint Capitan Andreevo on the Bulgarian-Turkish border. The news was reported Tuesday by the Bulgarian National Radio, BNR. The improvised camp of 330 machines of farmers from the southern cities of Haskovo and Stara Zagora will remain at the border at least this Thursday. The machines are guarded over night by a private security firm. Bulgarian farmers are staging nation-wide protests for the second consecutive day. Each year farmers receive EU subsidy, which is determined by the [...]

Bulgarian grain producers began nationwide protests on November 28 2011 after the Government refused to heed their demands for a reversal of a significant cut in the financial framework for agriculture in 2012. Protest actions included blockades and gatherings along various roads and bridges and at border points in about 25 places in the country. The Government’s Budget Bill 2012 proposes 230 million leva less than the 570 million leva financial framework agreed for agriculture a month before the October 23 2011 presidential and municipal elections, Bulgarian news agency BTA [...]

Farmers from all over Bulgaria are staging a nation-wide protest Monday with over 3 000 farming machines heading to cross-border checkpoints and main thoroughfares. It is expected that this will become the largest protest of farmers so far. The organizers told Darik radio that they will not block the borders and the roads during the first day of their termless strike, but threatened to do so if their demands are not fulfilled. They say they are ready to come and paralyze the capital Sofia on December 1. Each year farmers [...]

“I hope that grain producers are reasonable enough not to stage a strike and block the country,” stated Minister of Finance Simeon Djankov regarding the intention of the National Association of Grain Producers to protest because of the substantially reduced additional national payments under the single area payment scheme. Djankov explained that the resources which will be remitted from the state budget to the Ministry of Agriculture and Food in 2012 are identical to those for 2011. He said that a redistribution of money within this budget is being discussed. [...]