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Protesting farmers block key road in southern Bulgaria

Photo: Ivanka Petkova, Radio Plovdiv

Over 100 producers of fruit and vegetables from Pazardzhik, Plovdiv, Karnobat and Stara Zagora blocked the major Plovdiv - Karlovo road with tractors. This has been the second of a series of protests against the agricultural policy of the government. Protesters invited the Minister of Agriculture to come to them but he scheduled a press conference for March 16th in Sofia.

"It would be good for the minister to come and hear first hand the people’s problems," Mariana Miltenova of the Bulgarian National Horticultural Union has told BNR.

According to farmers, payments under the support scheme were not only late, but were also 25-percent lower than those in 2021, while costs have increased by 50% and this could lead to bankruptcy.



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