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The Government endorsed the Agreements signed in November 2017 in Riyadh for cooperation in the field of agriculture, livestock and fisheries between the Bulgarian Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Forestry and the Ministry of Environment, Water and Agriculture of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Tens of Bulgarian farmers are to demonstrate in Brussels along with producers from Italy, France, Belgium and other European nations over dairy and meat prices on Monday.

The action is to coincide with an extraordinary session of the Agriculture Ministers from across the EU.

Bulgaria and ten other member states will seek EU aid to compensate for the abolition of the milk quotas.

This was announced by the Deputy Agriculture Minister Tsvetan Dimitrov in an interview for the Bulgarian National Television (BNT) on Friday.

More than 1,000 Romanian farmers took part in a protest on Thursday in Bucharest, demanding more subsidies from the government and expressing fears that the EU decision to scrap milk production quotas will ruin them.

The budget for direct payments for farmers in 2015 is estimated to be BGN 1.4 B, as stated by the Minister of Agriculture and Food, Desislava Taneva.

She made the announcement at a press conference and thus introduced the campaign for euro subsidies starting on March 1.

Romania has all instruments provided by the European Union, both as regards the system of direct payments and the rural development program, to make sure milk producers can be supported to cope with the removal of milk quotas at EU level as of January 1, 2015, European Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development Dacian Ciolos said on Tuesday.