Sight at the Bulgarian Agriculture in the XXth Century, Now and in the Future

TR. DARDJONOV, V. CHRISTOV

Abstract: The critical analysis of the Bulgarian agriculture underdevelopment in the beginning of the past century could be explained with the fragmentized land utilization. The deepening of this process during the second half of the century is due to the collective land cultivation with overconcentrated state participation, isolated from the world’s technical progress. This brought to a crisis in the agriculture at the end of the 80 years of the past century. Unfortunately was not found a successive exit of it, the opposite the crisis deepened further on. In the attempt to find the well motivated for qualitative labor owner, we created 450 000 farm holders upon 18 % of the ULA and the remaining 82 % of it are ruled by 3800 huge entrepreneurs and cooperatives whose analogues do exist neither in Europe nor in the USA. As a result of this violent reformation, we actually have mono culture agriculture grains and sunflower, with few animals’ fruits and vegetables. The animal breeding, fruit and vegetable cultivation is carried out by the small sized farmer’s group. The legislation changes during the last 10 years consolidate this way of development, which takes us away from Europe and USA. Unfortunately, there is not an integrated concept concerning the actual development. The authors support the position of the necessity of a radical change of the policy in agriculture. The state should engage more actively and competently in the creation of the land market regulators, and land renting, as well as the agricultural products’ market organization through different farmer’s cooperatives. The subsidies should encourage the expansion of stock-breeding and the development of wellrounded agriculture. This will force upon changes in the acts of the land, the rent, the stock-breeding, complete reorganization of the agricultural science, the professional preparation of the farmers and their competent information supply. The branch farmers’ organizations would have to accept the superiority of the national interests in agriculture and to achieve a national unity with the MAF. The money granted by the state should guarantee the development of farmers’ agriculture but not the actual huge entrepreneurship. It is necessary to open a wide discussion before the working out the national strategy for development of the agriculture for to avoid and overpass the negative consequences from the past and to synchronize with the European development.

Keywords: agriculture; Bulgaria; change; development

Date published: 2024-09-05