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.
On Sunday the weather will be predominantly sunny over most of the country. Cumulus clouds will form before midday over the Southeasternmost regions where there will be occasional showers. In the afternoon cumulus rain clouds will form over..
A 9-year old boy with multiple injuries has been airlifted from Burgas to Pirogov emergency hospital in Sofia by a Spartan aircraft. The boy got stuck inside the hydraulic drum of a beach cleaning machine on the central beach in Sozopol...
GERB/SDS will not support a government on the third mandate. This was made clear after three hours of consultations with There Is Such a People (ITN). At these consultations ITN presented its priorities in the spheres of justice, energy and foreign..
Bulgaria introduces mandatory disinfection of vehicles at all border crossings because of outbreaks of small ruminant plague in Northern..
Sunny weather will prevail on Monday. There will be more significant increases in cloudiness over the northern and eastern regions of..
Bulgaria is in second place after Cyprus in the ranking of forest fires in Europe in 2024, according to the European Forest Fire..
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