In lower than per week, we’ll vote for Bulgarian representatives within the European Parliament and for deputies within the Nationwide Meeting. Among the many candidates for individuals’s representatives from the lists of GERB-SDS for the Plovdiv area is the precise producer Yordan Krastanov (SDS). He’s additionally the chairman of the Bulgarian Affiliation of Greenhouse Producers. BAPOP is among the many first members on Bthe Hungarian Agrarian Chamber.
We requested Mr. Krastanov as a producer and trade knowledgeable to share his views on the current and way forward for agriculture, and likewise of the nation.
The vital issues in our nation can solely be solved if the voters give a full mandate to GERB-SDS
Yordan Krastanov, Chairman of the Bulgarian Affiliation of Greenhouse Producers (BAPOP), in entrance of Agro Plovdiv
– Mr. Krastanov, per week earlier than the elections, our society is extraordinarily polarized and on the identical time discredited. Do you assume that with up to nowthe turbolenciand can a steady authorities be shaped this time?
I’ve hope {that a} stronger authorities might be shaped after these elections, as a result of the state of affairs calls for it. However I do not know who the individuals might be. Finally, the reply will come from the election outcomes. Folks will resolve who to vote for. We actually need to take an enormous lead in order that we will dominate the formation of the federal government. As a result of we noticed the outcome final time – it wasn’t good for anybody, and nobody gained.
– You might be third within the lists of GERB-SDS for the area Plovdiv and you’ve got conferences with voters. Is it cultural within the river?the aegion the election marketing campaign or are extra dividing strains being drawn?
On the regional degree, I do not assume there are dividing strains or battle between the events concerned. Every coalition or celebration makes its personal marketing campaign. In follow, nonetheless, aside from our marketing campaign, I don’t see a severe presence of different political forces within the area. Within the earlier pre-election intervals we met at occasions, now I see that colleagues usually are not very lively.
There aren’t any dramas within the district, though the chief of the PP-DB listing Rosen Kosturkov refused to take part.
On the nationwide degree it’s totally different, however the scandals don’t originate from us. I am speaking concerning the leaked data. I’m satisfied that these recordings have been made by individuals contained in the PP, as a result of there are inside celebration issues and clashes. The celebration is shifting the blame to the safety companies, however I do not assume that is true. They enroll themselves within the PP, as was the case with Radostin Vassilev. I am extra involved with the content material of the recordings than how they have been made. As a result of these individuals confirmed and proceed to indicate that that they had no concept to guide the nation in one other course and to a distinct authorities.
– Is that what it is because of? the foretold lead of GERB-SDS?
Some polling companies give us 10 p.c greater than the second within the upcoming elections, however I believe it is going to be extra, if, after all, there aren’t any manipulations. Sadly, I say it sincerely,
“Persevering with the Change” didn’t play the function assigned to them by the voters.
Specifically: to deliver one thing new to administration, a brand new mannequin for which they claimed. Quite the opposite! We’ve got seen extra vicious practices. The contracts they signed with the development corporations for the freeway are popping out. In my view, additionally it is about severe corruption in lots of locations. In accordance with analysis, in 2023 corruption in Bulgaria has reached a peak. In the long run, individuals will foot the invoice with taxes and a tighter regime.
– As chairman of The Bulgarian Affiliation of Greenhouse Manufacturing Producers you could have probably the most quick impressions of agricultural coverage in current months. What’s your remark?
The settlement we reached on “Ukrainian support” with the Minister of Agriculture (then Kiril Vatev) and Prime Minister Mykola Denkov was good. Along with the Ukrainian support, we additionally laid down a legislative program in it, which remains to be actively being labored on. However the level concerning the Ukrainian support was ignored by the finance minister and he didn’t safe funds below it, though the prime minister signed the settlement.
– Should not the settlement itself have said which establishments? with obliged to offer the funds?
I participated in all phases of the negotiations. Whenever you negotiate with the prime minister of the state and attain an settlement with him, I do not assume that contained in the settlement it needs to be written that the minister’s secretary ought to signal on the final web page.
The massive downside is that the finance minister acted arbitrarily.
Already through the negotiations, the Prime Minister stated that if we attain an settlement, he’ll current it to the Minister of Finance. And we have been questioning who’s the prime minister? Who’s boss of whom? It’s true that the settlement was not spelled out intimately, but when we had completed so it could have been insulting to the Prime Minister.
Sadly, the finance minister not solely didn’t present cash for the “Ukrainian support”. He did one thing else. The Parliament voted, though just for farmers – pure individuals, tax amnesty as much as 100,000 BGN. Nonetheless, it is not going to occur as a result of the EC refused us due to the discrimination in opposition to farmers who train their actions as authorized entities. The rationale for this discrimination was the finance minister’s warning to the deputies that if we embody authorized entities to make use of this tax aid, he’ll resign. Due to this fact, these texts have been voted half-heartedly. So as a substitute of a tax amnesty for all, the outcome was a tax amnesty for nobody.
– Do you assume that in the brand new program interval and with the insurance policies laid down within the Strategic Plan, Bulgarian farmers will be capable to produce extra native produce?
And now
we produce output, however yearly it decreases.
There are various causes and so they can hardly be mentioned in a single interview. If we speak about greenhouse manufacturing, we suffered as a result of hydroponic greenhouses didn’t obtain “Ukrainian support”. It’s true that fairly just a few of our growers have reached the ceiling and this has not affected them, however there are additionally smaller greenhouse farmers who’ve been affected. They didn’t obtain Ukrainian support as a result of they weren’t within the tied help for 2023.
Sadly
the funds from the Restoration and Sustainability Plan is not going to be used both
(PVU) due to PP. They stopped the plan that was made by the GERB authorities and made a brand new plan. Irrigation, for which BGN 848 million was pledged, was taken out of it. They have been transferred to construct a fictitious manufacturing unit for batteries and photovoltaic parks. In the long run, the result’s that we’re not absorbing any cash below the PVA, and we’ll most probably lose an enormous a part of that cash, I am speaking about billions.
– There was on the finish of 2023 two agricultural accepted below PVU – to modernize agriculture and to create facilities for zagothat is it of vegetables and fruit?
I’m not speaking solely concerning the funds for agriculture, however about all the PVA, on which we have now absorbed up to now a really low proportion of all funds, solely 3.64%. The reason being that the PP tied the receipt of funds to legislative modifications that take time to cross, so we created these obstacles for ourselves. And irrigation in Bulgaria, which additionally impacts greenhouse manufacturing, however largely Polish, has been liquidated. There may be completely no considered reform in “Irrigation Methods” EAD. Kiril Vatev had a superb initiative (I hope it is going to be continued) for simpler entry for farmers to underground water abstraction.
It is nearly unimaginable to drill proper now
due to the large necessities from the Ministry of Surroundings and Water. Fines are excessive and permits are arduous to return by. There is no such thing as a such harassment of farmers anyplace in Europe. Each farmer has quick access there. And in our nation, the state has put ten administrative limitations in entrance of farmers to surrender. There are insane normative texts, such because the one which obliges you to bury and liquidate a effectively from the time of the TKZS. And whenever you make a brand new one, it’s important to pay for a challenge, for a contractor, to pay charges. On the identical time, the water flows by means of the canals and in case you do not pay for it, they will not allow you to use it. So she goes to Maritsa or one other river and from there to Turkey and Greece. Folks surprise tips on how to develop agriculture, and establishments like bashibozuk shield water. How then to have manufacturing and better yields? It’s unimaginable!
– Solely thatso costly and vital for agriculture issues like irrigation water can’t be resolved in just a few months, as is the mandate of governments recently.
That is the massive downside! Governments 9 months outdated, one 12 months outdated, can not make reforms and implement a long-term program. That’s the reason the mandates are 4 years. To not point out that the political forces have a imaginative and prescient for 10-15 years forward. In order that
we want a authorities with a full mandate in order that we will stabilize the nation.
To date, many compromises have been made, but it surely was seen that these PP boys are lower than it. They do not know tips on how to run the nation, and clearly haven’t any long-term need to take the helm.
As I’m at the moment within the space of the affected villages within the municipality of Karlovo, I study that the Fee for Disasters and Accidents has not met since November final 12 months. It’s solely attainable that that is on the insistence of the Minister of Finance, as a result of the Fee has a finances of 100-150 million BGN, which can stay as a surplus of the state finances. And the villages haven’t any roads and bridges. PPs ran the state as a personal firm. A committee that needs to be working can’t be instructed by the finance minister to be inactive. That is my guess, however there is no such thing as a different cause why the committee mustn’t meet and allocate finances to the catastrophe affected villages.
For the time being, the ministries are additionally not working. With the brief horizon of any minister, everyone seems to be attempting to not make a mistake, in order that they do not get fired and issues stay unresolved.
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