So who is going to buy all the tobacco from Bulgarian farmers who have been encouraged by the EU to grow tobacco instead of traditional crops. This will result in the ordinary Bulgarian having to pay more for their agricultural products from grain to vegetables to fruit which may need to be imported

madoods,

it was not the EU that introduced or encouraged the growing of tobacco in Bulgaria. Tobacco has always been the main source of income of the Bulgarian state (and in the 1920s and 1930s also of the quasi-state of the VMRO in South-West Bulgaria that extorted a special "tax" from the farmers to finance their successful assassination business and lavish lifestyle of their leaders). It is also a bit naive to think that switching to other crops would reduce the prices for the consumers in Bulgaria. You seem not to know, how the "market" for most agricultural products works in Bulgaria. Farmers get very low prices from "businessmen" (who took obviously inspiration from the VMRO henchmen) who then keep the prices artificially high. That started with cherries a few years ago, later with grapes, and now extends to almost all agricultural proucts that sprout from Bulgarian soil.

By the way, there is a very interesting new book on the topic "Tobacco and Politics in Bulgaria". It is called "Balkan Smoke", by Mary C.Neuburger (Cornell Univerity press 2012).