Bioeconomic activity in Bulgaria in conditions of coronavirus

Maria Kotseva-Tikova, Milkana Mochurova

Abstract: The strategy of the European Union envisages the development of the bioeconomy as an important tool for achieving smart and green growth. This includes sectors that produce and use organic products. Their importance is particularly strong under a health threat such as Covid-19 infection, which requires serious restrictive measures in respect to distance and reduced direct contact, to travel and to gather people in one place. The impact of the pandemic is different upon the different bioeconomic industries in Bulgaria and this article examines the change and the risk of increasing coronavirus infection influence on some economic sectors inthe country.

Keywords: bioeconomy; Covid-19; development; economic sectors

Date published: 2021-10-15