They promised to donate this yr’s subsidies of round BGN 300,000 to charity
Blagovesta and Nikolay Vasilievi, the creators of “Wild Farm”which has been round for 30 years, they launched a petition, with which they sought the assist of all Bulgarians. Only for a day the petition has been signed by over a thousand individuals.
“We want you to protect conventional animal husbandry and to proceed feeding our and your youngsters with pure Bulgarian meals,” they are saying Niki and Beti, wearing previous Bulgarian costumes, in a video uploaded to Youtube.
The “Wild Farm” raises about two thousand beef cattle from uncommon indigenous Bulgarian breeds utilizing organic strategies. It’s the largest natural cattle farm in Europe. The primary slaughterhouse and workshop for processing natural beef within the Balkans was created by “Divata farm”, which has licensed 11% pastures as natural for 2022.
Nonetheless, this yr might become the final for a lot of the animals.
The reason being that annual grazing plans have been launched within the nationwide parks “Rila”, “Pirin” and “Stara Planina”, which prohibit livestock breeders from letting animals onto pastures which are above 1,500 meters in top.
The large drawback of the farming household is that under 2000 meters there are virtually no pastures and even at the moment of the yr the grasses are as dry as gunpowder. The centuries-old pastures the place the animals used to feed are above the permitted top. It typically rains there and the grass is inexperienced even in late July. It was to those pastures that in earlier years Nicholas and Betty had led the herd, which remained there till the primary snow fell.
“We might be very grateful if your complete Bulgarian individuals stood as much as shield Bulgarian nature and Bulgarian natural animal husbandry,” stated Betty.
“We, our animals, are a part of this nature. We’re in no way destroying it, as environmentalists declare. Natural animal husbandry is important for nature to nourish, restore and preserve its steadiness. Within the EU, with the assistance of 11 universities, a large-scale research was carried out on behalf of the European Fee. The report proves that enormous herbivores are exactly the hyperlink within the organic cycle that’s wanted to maintain wildlife. These grasslands which are being taken from us have been created by the herbivores which were on them for a whole lot of hundreds of years. Animals are an essential a part of the biodiversity within the mountains, the place every part is in symbiosis,” says Betty.
She added that the “Wild Farm” preserves the gene pool of the previous breeds of cattle within the nation. Six thousand years in the past, the Thracians bred the identical Rhodope shorthorn cattle.
Due to the modified situations within the plans of the nationwide parks, the farmers need to take a big a part of the animals to slaughterhouses, as a result of the farm doesn’t have the situations to boost them within the lowland. There are not any stables, solely sheds. Solely a couple of quarter of the “Wild Farm” herd is discovered within the pastures of the Jap Rhodopes.
Within the final 15 years, a big a part of the animals have been fed from the pastures of Rila. At first, there have been no different herds, till in 2014, when the Ministry of Agriculture created the pastoralism measure, which sponsored the mountain grazing animals. Since then, the variety of excessive grazing cattle has elevated an excessive amount of.
“My hope is that your complete Bulgarian individuals will unite in the reason for preserving Bulgarian animal husbandry. We are going to donate our complete grant we’d have obtained for 2024, excluding the taxes and costs we’ve to pay. Its quantity is sort of BGN 300,000. We are going to give this cash as charity to show to all “greens” that “Wild Farm” isn’t combating for subsidies, however combating for grazing. These funds can be utilized to purchase an ambulance for untimely infants, for instance. We wish to create an initiative citizen’s committee to watch whether or not the cows are overgrazing or trampling in the summertime, as a handful of Bulgarian scientists declare,” suggests Betty.
“Agro Plovdiv” joined the petition to assist “Wild Farm” as a result of it believes that if we assist one another, even with very small gestures like a symbolic signature on a petition, we will get out of the vicious circle through which we’ve been for years we spin and spin.
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