site.btaNational Grain Producer Association Chair Prodanov Resigns as Adviser to Minister of Agriculture

The main problem of agricultural processors, who are preparing to protest in the coming days, already has a solution, Prime Minister Nikolay Denkov said at a news briefing at the Council of Ministers here on Sunday. In his words, the solution is in the agreement between the European Commission and Ukraine. Ukraine has made a commitment to the European Commission to introduce temporary restrictions on agricultural exports to each individual EU member state so as not to flood its market with surplus goods, Denkov said.

Vice President Iliana Iotova commented on the air of BNT Saturday's remarks by Prime Minister Nikolay Dekov on the protests of grain producers regarding lifting the ban on Ukrainian agricultural products. Iotova equated Denkov calling grain producers in Bulgaria "terrorists" to a resignation.

Desislava Taneva, Chair of the Parliamentary Committee on Agriculture, Food and Forestry, said to journalists in Sliven on Saturday that she finds the grain producers' protest to be fair.

The Bulgarian Farmers Union (BFU) sent out a position to the media regarding the words of Prime Minister Nikolay Denkov, who commented on the planned protests by grain producers in Bulgaria.

The Prime Minister and the grain producers must stop with the harsh qualifications and threats, GERB leader Boyko Borissov told journalists in the resort of Albena. He also said that problems are solved at the negotiating table and that Prime Minister Nikolay Denkov's mistake was in the qualifications he used.

The arguments of grain growers protesting against the lifting of the ban on grain imports from Ukraine are completely groundless, Prime Minister Nikolay Denkov told journalists on Saturday.

Grain growers who are planning nationwide protests against Ukrainian farm imports have formally declined to meet with Prime Minister Nikolay Denkov on Saturday, the government leader said on Bulgarian National Television's weekly political talk show