Bulgarian farmers are still using Russian shelling of Ukrainian ports to push up grain prices

A Bulgarian trader shared the opinion that some local farmers are still relying on events like the shelling of Ukrainian ports to push up grain prices.

This opinion was shared by Bulgarian vegetable oil and raw material trader Preslav Raikov, writes Latifundist.

“Some local farmers are still relying on events like the bombing of ports in Ukraine to push up prices, and this is very problematic. Many are avoiding international industry events where they can meet buyers, processors, logisticians. Ukrainian, Croatian and Romanian farmers attend them – Bulgarians rarely do,” Raikov noted.

The trader emphasized that the “military bonus” has been paid to farmers for the third year in a row, despite the reduction in the cost of fertilizers, fuel, seeds and crop protection products, as well as minimal imports from Ukraine.

Some influential groups even advise their colleagues not to sell their crops below a certain price in order to maintain control over the market.

Raikov also recalled a case when a processing plant bought Canadian rapeseed, delivered thousands of kilometers away, cheaper than rapeseed from a farm a kilometer away. In his opinion, if farmers do not change their approaches, they will be squeezed out by more flexible competitors.

Earlier it became known that Bulgaria will lead the NATO mine action group in the Black Sea.