State Agriculture Fund

The State Agriculture Fund paid an additional BGN 3 million (BGN 2,912,012)  for fruit and vegetables for Campaign 2018, reported Econ.bg

The financial support is distributed in five directions among fruit growers and gardeners who grow their production under biological way.

On Thursday, the Management Board of the State Agriculture Fund will decide to pay the sums due to tobacco growers from northeastern Bulgaria who have claims to a private Greek company since 2016
 

The State Agriculture Fund will pay nearly BGN 1 billion by the end of the year. This was announced by the Executive Director of the Fund Jivko Zhivkov during the 8th National Seminar of the National Association of Grain Producers (NAZ), reports Mediapool. 

Organic farmers are preparing a protest for the Ministry of Agriculture because most of them have not received the European funds they are allocated to under the Rural Development Program, the BNR announced. The National Bio-Association has said that they believe that officials are blamed for lack of funds and that the Ministry of Agriculture is complicit in draining European money.

Bulgarian prosecuting authorities have detained several officials in a probe into the misuse of EU funding at the state fisheries body.

Those arrested include the Executive Agency of Fisheries and Aquaculture (EAFA)'s CEO, Yancho Yanchev.

The candidacy of former interim Finance Minister Rumen Porozhanov to take over the State Agriculture Fund (SFA), Agriculture Minister Desislava Taneva has said.