There are 40,000 biocertified sheep in Bulgaria, and 1,700,000 in Greece.
Within the new program interval 2023-2027, practically 410 million euros have been put aside for the natural sector within the interventions “Natural crop manufacturing”, “Natural beekeeping” and “Natural animal husbandry” for funds to farmers each within the transition interval and for organically licensed ones. . Myological farmers can even profit from free advisory providers from the Nationwide Agricultural Advisory Service, in addition to from
funding interventions for manufacturing and processing. This was said by Deputy Minister Tanya Georgieva on the opening of the eighth worldwide convention “Organic manufacturing – challenges and traits“, which began yesterday at Plovdivcontinues in the present day.
Tanya Georgieva famous that our nation has an enormous potential for larger-scale natural manufacturing and that the Ministry of Agriculture and Meals stands behind the business.
The Chairperson of the Bulgarian Affiliation of Bioproducts, Albena Simeonova, confirmed her observations in regards to the increasing market of natural merchandise. The reason being within the tradition of customers, who’re more and more cautious about what they placed on the desk. “We are going to revive the villages as a result of we stay in them. We care about nature, biodiversity and bees,” stated the chairman and added that, in contrast to different associations, organic associations don’t struggle with one another, however perceive one another.
The Nationwide Bio Affiliation and the primary organizer, the Bioselena Basis, additionally take part within the convention.
For the primary time since 2017, the full variety of bio-operators within the system has elevated. On the finish of 2023, in keeping with the info of the agrarian statistics, there are 5,026 natural operators in Bulgaria, whereas in 2022 there have been 4,863. The annual progress is barely over 3%, reported Pavel Chanov from the “Organic Manufacturing” Directorate on the Ministry of Agriculture. Of the indicated variety of natural operators, 4,400 are farmers, 400 are livestock breeders, the remainder are engaged in processing.
The biocertified areas have been barely over 147,000 ha on the finish of final 12 months. They signify about 3% of the full used space for 2023. In comparison with 2021, the areas have elevated by 71%. Then there have been about 86,000 ha.
Final 12 months, the areas with cereals elevated by 48%, and with pastures greater than 2.5 occasions.
Plantations with pears and plums recorded progress of 5 and 6 p.c, respectively, and areas with apples 15%.
In 2023, the areas with greens decreased in comparison with the earlier 12 months.
The manufacturing of natural honey in 2023 decreased by 7% and fell to 2,970 tons in comparison with 2022.
Statistics present a 122% improve in organically raised cattle and buffalo final 12 months. Their quantity reaches 30,500 cattle, of which 3,500 are dairy cows, which produced 11,500 tons of milk.
The variety of sheep and goats additionally will increase. There are 40,000 natural sheep and eight,000 goats.
Later, the chairman of “Bioselena” Stoilko Apostolov stated that it’s good that in our nation the variety of organically licensed sheep is 40,000. Nevertheless, in Greece they attain 1,700,000, which is 42 occasions extra.
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