ANKARA: After Russia banned the imports of Turkish fruits and vegetables because of the deterioration of relations between the two countries, a significant share of Turkey’s vegetables are expected to flood the Bulgarian market. This was stated by the chairman of the Association of Vegetable Producers in Burgas, Nikolay Nedyalkov.
To back up this claim, he pointed out that, in recent years, Poland, for example, has become a large producer of vegetables and much of its production has been exported to the Bulgarian market. “In Poland, EU funds were used as intended: for modern infrastructure. So Poles have become monstrous competition for us,” said Nedyalkov to Focus.
A large share of the vegetables consumed in the country, including mushrooms, come from Poland, because they built modern facilities. At the moment, only between 2% and 10% of the vegetables consumed in Bulgaria are of domestic origin; everything else is imported, reported Nikolai Nedyalkov.
