Agriculture Ministry

Bulgaria's Agriculture Minister has submitted a tip-off to Chief Prosecutor Sotir Tsatsarov against officials of the State Fund Agriculture (SFA) for flawed project approval.

Dimitar Grekov, as cited by Trud daily, made clear that the report to Tsatsarov contained a summary of multiple complaints of beneficiaries under the Rural Development Program.

Bulgaria's Deputy Minister of Agriculture Byurhan Abazov has met with representatives of the Ministry of Forestry of Indonesia, Friday.

The harvest season in Bulgaria could be delayed as a result of the intensive rains and floods in the country.

“Up to 250,000 decares of wheat have been destroyed by the rains and it could take at least a week longer than usual for the machines to go in and collect the harvest”, Agriculture Minister Dimitar Grekov said, quoted by Investor.bg.

This year's wheat yield in Bulgaria is expected to reach 5 M tons, said Agriculture Minister Dimitar Grekov. 

This would be the largest harvest for the past several years, surpassing last year's record of 4.7 M tons. 

According to Grekov, the main reason for the record yield are the additional 11 M decares sown under bread wheat. 

Bulgarian Agriculture Minister Dimitar Grekov has boasted about the progress in the country's cooperation with China.

Speaking Friday at a meeting with Chinese Ambassador Wei Jinghua, Grekov declared that the cooperation between the two countries in the sphere of agriculture had progressed from the stage of ideas to the stage of implementation.

The European Commission has not suspended rural development payments to Bulgaria, according to Roger Waite, EC Spokesman for Agriculture and Rural Development.

BELGRADE – The Phytosanitary Inspection of the Serbian Ministry of Agriculture will conduct a thorough inspection of soybean crops and oversee the purchases of soy grain with a view to preventing the cultivation and trade of GMO soy in Serbia, the ministry has said in a release.

Pupils at public schools in Attica and the northern port city of Thessaloniki are to receive free fruit and fruit salad from Tuesday as part of a program developed by the Agriculture Ministry.

An expert group will start working on tax on uncultivated lands by end-May, Bulgaria's Agriculture Minister Dimitar Grekov announced at a meeting with agricultural associations

The new tax seeks to stimulate owners to lease uncultivated lands to cooperatives and to local companies in order to utilize fertile agricultural lands.

Agriculture Minister Dimitar Grekov has promoted the export potential of the local agriculture sector to Japan's Ambassador to Bulgaria Takashi Koizumi.

At a Monday meeting with Koizumi, Grekov claimed that agriculture was the most stable sector of the Bulgarian economy, stressing that Bulgarian products were popular on the Japanese market.