Bulgarian Grain Producers on Protest over Unpaid Subsidies

Society | November 6, 2008, Thursday // 00:00

Bulgaria's grain producers are to stage protests all across the country on Thursday over the lack of state subsidies for grain production.

Heavy tractors are already crawling to different meeting points, coming from the towns Haskovo, Vratsa, Rakovski, etc.

The protesters said they have not received BGN 5 extra payment per decare, added to the subcidies of BGN 16,78 coming from the EU funds for 2008.

They claim also that previously demanded extra payments of BGN 9 have not been included in the 2009 budget.

According to farmers, the agriculture policy of the government dooms them to bankruptcy.

They have even demanded the resignation of the Agriculture Minister Valeri Tsvetanov claiming he failed to keep his recent promises.

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