site.btaAgriculture Minister: Successful Interaction between Science, Practice Makes Agri-Food Chain More Resilient to Global Challenges

Caretaker Minister of Agriculture and Food Georgi Tahov Friday unveiled a scientific agricultural forum on sustainable agri-food system as a national priority for Bulgaria's food independence. Addressing the forum at Sofia's National Palace of Culture, he said that successful interaction between science and practice is the path to making Bulgaria's agri-food chain more resilient to global challenges. That successful interaction requires dialogue, exchange of experience, finding and taking governance decisions, he added.

In his words, it is very important for scientists, agricultural producers, processors, and consumers to work together to guarantee food security. "A possibility for all of that lies in the introduction and application of agritech solutions," he argued.

According to Tahov, for Bulgaria to meet the challenges related to the EU's Green Deal, which is for a sustainable and ecological transition, the goals of the From the Farm to the Table strategy should focus on food security, public health, and environmental protection. "It is a serious challenge facing us to promote the relation between the system for scientific research and to speed up the transfer of knowledge and innovation to the agritech business," he said. The Minister of Agriculture and Food will support such initiatives, he added.