A number of years in the past, I noticed a prediction that Dobruja would change into a desert, and the Sofia subject would change into the granary of the nation. It’s already taking place, stated the well-known grain producer Angel Vukodinov
– Mr. Vukodinov, how is the harvest this 12 months?
As soon as upon a time, a colleague advised {that a} cow, which was one and a half meters tall, drowned in a mountain river with a median depth of 20 cm. How so? Effectively, it is quite simple. There are swimming pools within the river. And our case is like that. The common scenario in Bulgaria won’t be unhealthy. Sadly, we from Pazardzhik, Plovdiv and to some extent Starozagorsk have fallen right into a whirlpool. Producers in these three areas, in my observations, would be the worst performers. And once more I say it with one factor in thoughts, as a result of “every little thing is relative”.
– What are the common yields right here?
The harvest we’re at the moment harvesting 20 years in the past we might have stated it was common and even good. However with these excessive prices which have accrued and with this escalation of costs after the coronavirus after which after the beginning of the warfare in Ukraine, we can not boast of a great harvest. Observe that realized costs have returned to pre-coronavirus values like the worth of wheat, say, and the worth of consumables will not be 4 occasions as excessive because it jumped after the beginning of the navy battle, however it’s nonetheless twice as excessive as earlier than 2020. One particular instance: Earlier than the coronavirus, ammonium nitrate was round BGN 350 with out VAT. Two years in the past, it jumped to report ranges of BGN 1,500. In the mean time it’s “solely” 600-650 BGN/ton or double of earlier than Covid-19. Earlier than the pandemic, wheat was bought at round BGN 380/ton. Presently, costs are near what they have been then, however decrease. I do not know precisely what they’re proper now as a result of it is fairly blurry. That is why I say that
the 350 to a most of 400 kg/ha which can be harvested in our space (and there are a lot worse yields) is a foul outcome.
This harvest, multiplied by the low value, places the farmers in a quite unfavourable scenario. In fact, this isn’t the case in all places. I hear that they’re mining double our yields someplace. So, on common for the nation, the harvest can be reported pretty much as good.
“However nonetheless, you are above price, aren’t you?”
With the mines we’ve in Pazardzhik, Plovdiv and Starozagorsk, I believe we’ll promote under price. I say it evasively, as a result of the price value for various colleagues is totally different, however for my part it will likely be round BGN 450 per ton. And in the intervening time the market is 100-120 BGN down.
– Will there be compensation from different cultures?
I believe for the sunflower the payments can be higher.
– For the irrigated one?
Typically, we don’t water the sunflower, however even when we need to water it, there isn’t any water. And even when there’s, it would not work out economically. And thirdly, purely technologically, if robust winds happen, the watered sunflower lies down. Now he has already flourished. Nowadays I used to be by the ocean, and after I was coming again, it was raining fairly closely close to Yambol. At Stara Zagora they have been just a little weaker. There have been zero right here.
– Is there water within the “Irrigation Programs” canals within the Saedinenie space?
Within the area of Saedinenie, rice and corn are irrigated. I personally water corn. There’s water, however I say there in quotes. Solely the canal that provides water for rice irrigation has been repaired. That is Aleko channel. I do not assume he was in such dire straits. It is usually smaller than the Most important Irrigation Canal, which serves a number of districts and whose water comes from the Topolnitsa Dam.
However there’s one other downside. The intra-channel community is in an unpleasant state, unprofitable and no person’s enterprise. Typically, farmers clear this community of canals out of goodwill and since they want the water. Issues are tragic there.
– Tragic?
It’s a huge downside for our area that twenty years in the past, two dams have been bought for unknown causes and, in my private opinion, illegally. They have been of the previous TKZS. I’m not conscious of how the land was bought, as a result of this can’t be carried out legally. These dams have been made on the time with the primary function of serving as levelers and irrigating a part of the agricultural lands with their waters. One dam is sort of non-functional. The opposite is used as a fishpond by a tenant. A significant battle arises as a result of Irrigation Programs owns the primary irrigation system.
The secondary channel community is no person’s enterprise. And the dam, which is meant to function an equalizer, is personal.
Based on the Water Legislation, essentially the most precedence consumer of water is the inhabitants. In second place is irrigation. On the third are hydropower vegetation, and so on. Nonetheless, this regulation will not be adopted.
– Did you water the corn but?
We watered the corn growers across the dam as soon as by getting water from the personal dam. We pay the waterings to “Irrigation Programs”, which have the dedication to revive the quantity of water we use on the dam. However since they did not, or at the very least did not compensate the dam sufficient, the fish farmers there refuse us a second watering in order to not tire the fish. “We will provide you with water when Irrigation Programs compensates us for the quantities we gave you for the primary watering,” we’re advised.
The issue is that the farmers have carried out their calculations, anticipating 1 ton of corn per acre at a price of 750 kg attributable to irrigation. To ensure that the producer to acquire 1 ton of manufacturing, he should guarantee a minimal of two irrigations per season. If there is just one watering, the yield will drop to 500 kg and once more the farmer can be under price.
– It nonetheless appears to me that earlier than the pandemic, farmers labored extra flippantly. And from there it will get tougher and tougher. Is that right?
Certainly, earlier than 2020 it was higher. I do not know now the place it comes from. Whether or not it is from politics and carelessness, whether or not it is the local weather, whether or not it is the inexperienced deal… And Grandfather God punishes us moreover. Apparently we’re value it. However the local weather appears to be the largest problem. In Siberia, for instance, wheat is already grown.
– Due to world warming? How far will it go, what do you count on?
25 years in the past in Hanover, I noticed a board with a map of all of Europe and a forecast till 2050 of how local weather change will have an effect on particular person international locations. I went to Bulgaria on this map and there I noticed two issues that stunned me lots and appeared futuristic to me on the time. One was that Dobruja would start to abandon. And the opposite factor, that the Sofia subject will change into the granary of Bulgaria. And these items are actually virtually a truth.
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