Young Farmers and New Entrants in Bulgarian Agriculture - Profiling their Challenges and Needs

Petar Borisov, Teodor Radev, Dimitre Nikolov

Abstract: At the moment in Bulgaria there is no research focused on Young farmers and New Entrants after the CAP reform in 2013. There is foreseen financial support to young farmers through sub-measure 6.1 of the RDP 2014–2020. Increasing the number and share of young farmers is necessary both to ensure sustainable development and to facilitate structural changes in agriculture. In the current research is identified the profile of the young farmers (YFs) and new entrants (NEs). There were identified the basic factors that are barriers for entrance of YF and NE and the specific challenges and needs that will occur in future.

Keywords: challenges; needs; new entrants; RDP; young farmers

Date published: 2019-07-11