BULGARIAN STOCK BREEDING – STATUS AND PROBLEMS
Julia Doitchinova, Ivan Kanchev
University of National and World Economy, Department “Natural Resources Economics”, Sofia, Bulgari
juliadoj@abv.bg
The paper presents analysis and evaluation of basic problems of Bulgarian stockbreeding and shows an opportunity for future development. During the last 20 years in the Republic of Bulgaria large changes were noticed in terms of the number of animals and productivity level as well. The current production structure in stockbreeding is highly dualistic with a few large individual producers and cooperatives on the one hand and a very large number of very small farms on the other. At present the small farms are the basic producers of animal products, although their production is not efficient, not competitive and is connected with large labor costs. This is confirmed by the data on the average number of animals in one farm. Special attention will be paid to the organizational problems of the milk stockbreeding in the family sector particularly of the small, medium and family farms which at this stage are the main milk producer in the country.
Keywords: stockbreeding farms; production structures
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