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Bulgaria farmers will block four border crossing points on February 4

Tue, Feb 03 2009 10:38 CET

byNick Iliev

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New protests will be staged by the farmers from northern and southern Bulgaria on February 4, Boiko Sinapov, head of the Association of the Cattle Farmers said, as quoted by the Bulgarian news agency BTA.

The two protests will be separate and will be organised independent of one another. The association headed by Sinapov has planned the beginning of its protest for noon on the new section of Trakyia motorway near Stara Zagora. The organisers insist that the protest will be peaceful.

The main demand of the protest near Stara Zagora is for the Agriculture Ministry to finally update the cattle owners registry, which is used to identify the recipients and size of cattle farming subsidies.

The association has claimed that because the registry has not been updated recently, some subsidies went to farmers who had slaughtered their livestock, while others received no subsidies, even though they were entitled to.

Bulgaria's Agriculture Minister Valeri Tsvetanov had promised farmers that the registry would be updated by January 1 2009, but it was not, prompting the cattle farmers to call for his resignation.

On February 3, the head of the National Association of Diary Farmers in Bulgaria Adrian Tsakonski said that the association would block the three border check points with Romania at Vidin, Oryahovo and Rousse, hoping to be joined by their Romanian counterparts. The blockades will begin on February 4.
 

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