Two years in the past, he misplaced his BGN 1 million harvest to a flood, and ex-prime minister Galab Donev promised him 100% compensation. He was not paid a lev
Third day Georgi Stoilov (37 years) from With. Shamrock reaps wheat and barley. Meteorologists warn folks to remain within the shade and in air con, and he complies – he stands within the cool cabin of the mix, the place he’s within the shade and that is his workplace. Exterior somewhat after 10 o’clock it’s already approaching 30 levels. The harvester’s laptop consistently studies one thing and alerts, the header picks up the vegetation… and so forth from morning to nighttime.
However this yr’s harvest doesn’t carry pleasure to Georgi.
“This yr
yields are extraordinarily poor,
particularly for the Plovdiv area, due to the drought and delayed rainfall. Truly the wheat burned after which the rain fell. To date I’ve harvested about 1,000 acres and my common yield is between 300 and 400 kg per acre,” he says.
Solely ten days in the past, when the harvest was solemnly began close to the village of Zlatitrap close to Plovdiv, the Minister of Agriculture, Georgi Tahov, predicted a median yield of over 500 kg per hectare.
“The final time I noticed harvest was in 2022, however then…”, Stoilov doesn’t need to end.
Then, within the first days of September 2022, Georgi Stoilov suffered horrible injury. After the Stryama river plunged a number of Karlovian villages into destroy, it descended into the lowland and on the village of Trilistnik the water factor was unleashed as soon as extra. Sadly, the warehouse base of the grain producer was in her means. It contained 500 tons of sunflower and 700 tons of wheat. The water picked up the sunshine sunflower seeds from the open sheds and carried them not solely across the giant yard, but in addition past. Moist the wheat too.
Learn extra: Farmer Georgi Stoilov misplaced a crop price over BGN 800,000 within the watery hell of Trilistnik
Initially, the grain producer estimated his damages at BGN 800,000, however later the municipal agricultural service, in addition to a licensed appraiser, introduced that his losses have been about BGN 1 million.
On the second day of the flood
appearing Prime Minister Galab Donev was visiting
with the victims. He additionally went to Georgi. He noticed the still-floating sunflower and the sprouting wheat grains on the spot and personally promised him that he can be compensated 100%.
The flood introduced extra prices to the farmer from Trilistnik and never a single lev of compensation. Just one letter arrived from the disaster headquarters in Sofia, during which it was defined that there’s not that a lot cash within the fund for disasters and accidents. Along with the truth that the Prime Minister didn’t preserve his phrase, along with the truth that the Ministry of Agriculture, regardless of the evaluation of the injury, didn’t assist with something in any respect, Georgi needed to pay a licensed appraiser to calculate his losses, in order that the NRA could possibly be reassured that the farmer didn’t evades taxes.
He’s grateful solely to his fellow grain producers who got here to his support with their labor. However he categorically refused them after they determined to assist him with cash to get again on his ft.
“I nonetheless have not gotten over that loss from two years in the past. I am nonetheless getting out of 1 mortgage and moving into one other. I am nonetheless in disaster,” says Stoilov.
From 2022 till now, the scenario for grain producers has been steadily deteriorating.
“Barley costs are presently very low – BGN 280-290/ton. I hear about wheat being bought for 330 to 350 BGN. Final yr it was 370-380 BGN. I do not know why, however
when the harvest begins, the fuels go up.
Ten days in the past, diesel price BGN 2.10, and now it has slowly grow to be BGN 2.40/liter,” the person from Trilistnik is outraged.
He calculated the associated fee value of wheat at 160 to 180 BGN/ton. Even when the bread grain is purchased for 400 BGN, the farm will nonetheless be at a loss because of the low yields.
“We work to work,” explains Stoilov. There isn’t a revenue, and when there may be, it’s minimal.
This yr, the sunflower he sowed will carry it again. As a result of proper now, when it blooms and when moisture is most wanted for yield, there isn’t a rain, no irrigation water, no dew within the morning.
His farm definitely lacks funds for funding.
For Ukrainian support,
which grain producers obtained for the primary time this yr, Georgi attracts consideration to the truth that its circumstances should not honest. The speed is BGN 10 per hectare, and the subsidy is paid as much as 3,000 decares per farm. (His firm farms about 6,000 acres.) To be helped on the remaining acres, growers needed to show they have been making a loss. “We’re actually at a loss, but when we account for it, no financial institution will give us a mortgage.” Requested to measure the quantity of support, he mentioned that one herbicide remedy prices about 7-8 BGN per hectare.
“I began farming 12 years in the past. This job made me completely satisfied, so I selected it. However in recent times it turned out that there isn’t a perspective in grain manufacturing, even for younger folks. Issues go from unhealthy to worse. The calls for on us are rising and are already an excessive amount of. The local weather modified, yields fell, equipment costs doubled. Work now not brings me pleasure.’
When requested if he had taken measures to forestall the flood within the warehouse from occurring once more, Georgi Stoilov defined that nothing could possibly be executed if the river overflowed once more. What’s worse is that the Stryama dikes stay unfortified regardless of the latest drama skilled in Trilistnik. “If the flood occurs once more, I am executed with farming without end,” the grain farmer mentioned with out a trace of doubt.
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