2024 Author: Jasmine Walkman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 08:29
There are no Bulgarian vegetables in the markets. According to the Union Made in Bulgaria, nearly 78 percent of the fruits and vegetables sold in domestic markets and markets are imported.
An inspection by inspectors of the State Commission on Commodity Exchanges and Markets has found that there have been massive imports of vegetables from Albania in recent weeks. Fruits and vegetables are imported en masse from Greece, Macedonia and Turkey.
Meanwhile, an inspection of the capital's markets shows that all but one of the traders advertise their goods as Bulgarian. Not a single stall has lemons, tomatoes or cucumbers from Albania, where they actually come from. Instead, signs are placed everywhere that the tomatoes and cucumbers are from Plovdiv, etc.
In fact, imported fruits and vegetables do not differ in quality from Bulgarian ones. Traders prefer to hide their true origins from a purely psychological point of view, because Bulgarians avoid buying imported vegetables.
If you really like Bulgarian vegetables, you can bet on the salads that are grown in native greenhouses. Greenhouse cultivation of tomatoes and cucumbers in Bulgaria is unprofitable and expensive, and the products are exported abroad.
Even the potatoes currently available at the stalls are not home-grown. The fact is that in our country nearly 80,000 tons of potatoes are grown annually, which is not enough to meet the consumption, which is nearly 500,000 tons per year.
The situation is similar on meat stands. According to data from the Bulgarian Chamber of Commerce, nearly 84 percent of the meat in Bulgaria is imported.
These alarming data led experts to recommend that the state find a way to create conditions for protection and incentives for Bulgarian production, of course, without violating European regulations.
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