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Freedom of movement: Greek cows accused of grazing Bulgarian crops
Photo: Clive Leviev-Sawyer
Bulgaria is under attack by a new wave of nomads – Greek cows are making incursions dozens of kilometres across the border, grazing on crops in the foothills of the Rhodope Mountains, Bulgarian National Television (BNT) said on September 11.
Local authorities in the Kirkovo municipality have gone as far as to prepare a protest note to the European Commission on the issue, BNT said.
In the village of Shoumnatitsa, farmers have taken to removing identification tags from cows to prove that the animals were indeed registered in Greece. "We want both our people and experts to have proof that these are Greek cows," BNT quoted Emil Kyosev, the village's mayor, as saying.
After Bulgaria joined the European Union in January 2007, all border demarcation and barbed wire has been removed, so the animals meet no resistance passing through the sparsely populated areas in the foothills of the Rhodopes.
Farmer Mehmen Ankov said: "They grazed my beans and my watermelons. There's nothing left. They even trampled my tobacco."
Complaints filed with Bulgarian and Greek authorities have yielded no results so far, BNT said.
"How is it that these Greek farmers are getting very large subsidies for their animals and they take no care of them, so that for weeks and months they have no idea where their animals are," the mayor of Kirkovo municipality, Shoukran Idriz, was quoted as saying.
Local authorities in the Kirkovo municipality have gone as far as to prepare a protest note to the European Commission on the issue, BNT said.
In the village of Shoumnatitsa, farmers have taken to removing identification tags from cows to prove that the animals were indeed registered in Greece. "We want both our people and experts to have proof that these are Greek cows," BNT quoted Emil Kyosev, the village's mayor, as saying.
After Bulgaria joined the European Union in January 2007, all border demarcation and barbed wire has been removed, so the animals meet no resistance passing through the sparsely populated areas in the foothills of the Rhodopes.
Farmer Mehmen Ankov said: "They grazed my beans and my watermelons. There's nothing left. They even trampled my tobacco."
Complaints filed with Bulgarian and Greek authorities have yielded no results so far, BNT said.
"How is it that these Greek farmers are getting very large subsidies for their animals and they take no care of them, so that for weeks and months they have no idea where their animals are," the mayor of Kirkovo municipality, Shoukran Idriz, was quoted as saying.
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Where is the local slaughterhouse / meat processing plant / myasokombinat ?
Cows go in one end, and beef products come out the other. Useful for supplementing the local Bulgarian food chain.....
These cows speak Greek ;-)
So their are from Greece ;-)
Germanos Karavangelis
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I'm Greek_Canadian and I can tell right away this is part of a crypto-facist Bulgarian plot against us.
The cows in the photo are clearly not of Greek origin. Not a single one of them has a Greek farmer lovingly mounted on it.
P.S.
are those the actual culprits on the photo?
They look Greek;)
John,
yeah, we are very good at giving each other "free fertilizer" in the Balkans;)
I would trade a watermelon for a cow any day, won't you? And i won't complain so loud either, rather stuff myself with roast beef.
Think of it this way, you are receiving free fertilizer from Greece!
What's the problem?
Round the up and keep them. That would make the Greeks go out of their way to keep them in Greece;) The whole village will be lining up the border making sure that the cows don't immigrate.
I regret that explaining the border situation to a cow may not get many results!
Try putting a fence around your fields - just like they do in the rest of Bulgaria.