2024 Author: Jasmine Walkman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 08:29
Christmas fasts and the traditional table for Christmas Eve this year will be quite salty for Bulgarians, as the price of Bulgarian beans exceeded that of chicken.
Smilyan beans and peeled beans reached prices of between BGN 10 and 12 per kilogram at retail, which exceeded the price of chicken meat and caught up with better quality beef and pork.
Producers from the Rhodopean village of Smilyan say they will not back down from the high price, and to comments that beans have become more expensive than meat, they say that because of the conditions in our country it is easier to raise a pig than beans.
The imported beans from China and India are cheaper, which are offered wholesale for BGN 5 per kilogram. However, experts warn that imported beans should be boiled longer, which can swell your electricity bill. Housewives complain en masse that it takes hours to fully cook the imported beans.
Consumers even joke that due to the higher prices of Bulgarian beans this year in the bean dishes for Christmas and Christmas Eve will emphasize vegetables and onions. And instead of stuffed peppers with beans, some say they will make stuffed peppers with rice.
The prices of beans have long exceeded those of sausages, frankfurters and most salamis, and this year our beans are already being compared to quality pork and beef.
Experts in crop production say that the native beans are almost disappearing from the markets in our country, and the reason for this is 7 times less crops in the last decade.
In 2001, the crops with beans in the country were 107,604 acres, and in 2013 they fell to 15,414 acres.
There are almost no large beans left in Bulgaria, and what is offered in shops and markets is mostly imported. The salvation, according to farmers, is in equalizing the subsidies of farmers with those of their colleagues from other countries in the European Union.
So far, it is rumored that from next year the producers of cereals in our country will receive 2% higher subsidies than those they have received so far.
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