2024 Author: Jasmine Walkman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 08:29
Bulgarian producers have alerted the institutions that tomatoes are imported into the country, which are sold at very low prices and are of dubious quality.
Roma clans from the Pirin region are involved in the illegal trade, but so far no one has been held accountable for the illegal goods.
Home farmers are threatening to protest if the state authorities do not take measures to stop the illegal import of vegetables.
Twice the lower prices of imported tomatoes sabotage the production of local farmers, who are forced to comply with a number of requirements in order to market their goods.
The State Market Commission stated that they had not been able to catch any person involved in the illegal import, as most of the traders were hiding during the inspections.
The Minister of Agriculture Dimitar Grekov also took a stand on the issue, promising to start mass border checks as early as Monday.
For this purpose, a working group headed by Deputy Minister Yavor Gechev has been set up, which will include representatives of the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Interior, the Ministry of Transport, the Bulgarian Food Safety Agency, the Customs Agency and the National Revenue Agency.
Border control will be 24-hour, and even light trucks transporting vegetables for personal consumption will be inspected.
The scope of the order is until June 30.
A recent inspection by btv showed that tomatoes are being sold en masse on the stock exchange near the Plovdiv village of Plodovitovo, for which there is no information about their origin and quality.
Some of the goods have been proven to be contaminated in addition to being of poor quality.
Illegal tomatoes tempt consumers with their attractive prices from 80 stotinki to 1.30 per kilogram, unlike Bulgarian products, whose prices are around BGN 2 per kilogram.
Quite a few of the sellers told the TV camera that they had been threatened by the traders of illegal tomatoes in order not to file complaints against them.
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