You can't fight against nature , but you can take enough measures to minimize the damage. This is what Krasimir Karakachanov, chairman of VMRO, told FOCUS.
As a good measure, he sees the creation of an insurance company in which the state participates with 50% and the owners themselves with 50%, so that a significant part of the agricultural crops of small and medium producers can be compensated. "No matter how many hailstones hit us every year, nothing is taken seriously. According to official data, no more than 40% of Bulgaria's territory is protected from such natural disasters," explained Karakachanov.
He drew attention to the fact that the agricultural subsidy is the same for the one who has 1 million decares of land and the one who has 50 decares of land: "Some can insure their production, but for others it is a luxury. In the 21st century, you cannot be left without a system that fights hail. In the past 30 years, little has been added to what was under socialism. Irrigation systems were destroyed. Everything was destroyed and the country is silent, it does not care. In agricultural policy, the state has left things to their own devices, it does not control the processes, it does not plan them, added Krasimir Karakachanov.
He was adamant that the state's irresponsible attitude towards agriculture must end: "Big landowners corrupt the system in state agriculture, and in fact the state does nothing. The good news from the acting Minister of Agriculture to start a procedure to build 24 new anti-hail sites will last until the next hailstorm, when this Minister will no longer be a Minister. Knowing the practice of the previous agricultural ministers, I highly doubt that anything will be done. Managing the state, unfortunately, has become a profession and profitable business for some senior politicians and their protégés, passing as experts, rather than as a responsibility to society, the leader of VMRO pointed out.
To a question related to the new law that the EU has for restoring nature, Karakachanov answered: "When I hear about something green from Europe, I know that this is another green utopia that the European greens, who rule Europe together with the ultra-liberals, are introducing . With the Green Deal they destroyed energy in Europe and left Europe without cheap and affordable energy in a time of military crisis. The total indiscriminate logging that has been taking place for several decades since the DPS manages the forests and agriculture in Bulgaria must be stopped.
In Bulgaria, there are enough competent specialists, people who understand agriculture and forests, and we must rely on their experience, not on book greens. What measures will they take from Brussels, when in Bulgaria the policy is aimed at this - everything that can be stolen, even when it must be destroyed, is destroyed in order to be stolen. During communism, which was not ruled by Brussels and the Greens, there was much more developed agriculture, and the state fed itself and exported meat and agricultural products, and forests were maintained and the forest background was created and renewed, it's just that the state was pragmatic. ;, recalled the chairman of VMRO.
In his words, what happened today in the parliament is another series of the circus we are watching: "The majority is clear - GERB, DPS and ITN. They want to buy time while they distribute their management positions. It is because we as citizens are passive. From election to election, fewer and fewer people vote and we arrive at some paradoxes that we will observe in the coming months or years of a government formed without any broad legitimacy from the public".
"Borisov's approach is frivolous, the way politicians behave in society is also frivolous. But this cannot go on forever, because patience eventually runs out. In the last 3 years, the Bulgarian lives worse and worse - higher inflation, higher prices of food products and medicines, worse health care.
Higher gas, oil, etc. prices. The administration, instead of being reduced in an economic crisis, is increased with each new government. This administration is looking to dip its toes in the honey quickly. Normal people who do not have the protection of one or another ruling party cannot develop absolutely anything. This forces them to emigrate and this leads to a decrease in the labor force. Who will come to invest in a country where there is no workforce?
We at VMRO offer very simple things - first of all to stimulate young working families. Let's give young families a certainty to give birth to their children in Bulgaria, to raise them in Bulgaria, to receive quality education in Bulgaria and quality health care. For agriculture, the entire system of distribution of subsidies - state and European must be changed. And it should be aimed at the fact that the money in the hundreds of millions does not flow into the big grain farms, but goes to the producers who produce fruits, vegetables, and animal breeders. 70% of the food products in the store are either foreign production or with imported raw materials.
Bulgaria's land is not fully utilized, and it is the main resource we have. We have coal, which we will not be able to use from next year with the Green Deal, and the price of electricity will rise from there. And when the price of electricity rises, it means a blow to the country's economy. Those people who have businesses and produce something, the cost of their production will increase in price and become unsaleable. The question is whether the politicians will find enough strength to tighten up and start working for society and not just for their own pockets.
People will finally get fed up and instead of not voting, they will come out with the trees and the axes. We have seen this both in the history of Bulgaria and in the history of other European countries. Why should we get to cataclysms like there were in Ukraine, France, and the whole of Europe, farmers protested", Krasimir Karakachanov also said.