2024 Author: Jasmine Walkman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 08:29
In our country, shops offer almost entirely only deep-frozen, mainly imported meat, but at the expense of the cheapest in Europe.
The common practice in our country is to offer deep-frozen meat, which makes its price lower than in other European countries. In Bulgaria, almost no fresh meat is sold, said the chairman of the Commission on Commodity Exchanges and Markets Eduard Stoychev to Darik.
The truth shone - 80 percent of pork and 90 percent of beef is imported and in reality consumers and traders are dependent only on what meat importers bring to our country.
Stoychev is adamant that only domestic production could solve the problem with the quality of the food offered and added the shocking finding that currently over 80 percent of the meat is imported.
It became clear that in meat warehouses it is stored only deep-frozen and only in some stores, which are supplied directly from Bulgarian producers, we can buy fresh meat - mostly lamb.
Mr. Stoychev stated that real beef has not been available in the trade for a long time. What we buy for beef is actually beef.
The low price of deep-frozen meat raises the question of how long it has been in freezers and refrigerators. The chairman of the Commodity Exchanges Commission said the meat could not be stored other than deep-frozen.
The truth is that even our neighboring countries pay more for meat and that we do not eat what they do. In other words, the Bulgarian gives his money for the lowest possible quality meat. The meat storage bases have stated that they have not kept fresh meat for years.
According to Stoychev, the only way out of the situation is the development of local production, similar to Germany and France. In Germany, half of the products are self-produced, and in France their share reaches 60 percent.
For comparison, in Bulgaria the percentage is only 15 percent, which means that our market is dependent on 85 percent of imports, which automatically excludes the presence of competitiveness.
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