My question stems from the sad statement of one of our most talented living writers - Nedyalko Slavov, on the occasion of the alarming news that our mutual friend, one of the most well-read and successful businessmen, the apple producer from Plovdiv, Krasimir Kumchev, announced hours ago. announced that it would stop producing its "Golden Apples".

On this occasion, the great writer wrote: "The non-Bulgarians won".

More than once, I have met the readers of our site with the comments and analyzes of Krasimir Kumchev, a well-known agricultural producer, agricultural expert and consultant.

He was nominated as Farmer #1 of Golden Thrace/2003/, he has been working in the field for over 40 years.

Here is what Krasi wrote on the social network:

"Farewell!

For forty years, together with the people from Rogosh, Skutare, Trilistnik, Kostievo and Dink, we produced about THREE HUNDRED MILLION kilograms of apples!

The farm in Rogosh, which I had the good fortune to lead in the period 1986-1991, produced more apples than now the whole of Bulgaria!

Rogosh was the APPLE capital of Bulgaria.

There is nothing anymore.

That was the end of my apple fairy tale.”

When I read this, my throat tightened with grief and bitterness, and I immediately called him on the phone.

He said that he was brought to tears by the joke of his friend, who offered to bring him a basket of apples from his on the phone!

For years, Krasi Kumchev has been fighting the windmills of hardened Bulgarian agricultural officials.

Most of those appointed to the relevant department are known and have been proven more than once to be party ladybugs of every successive ruling political power.

And that in most cases they are not aware of when to sow, when to dig, but as shureis and bejanacs of the "right people", they have the privilege of occupying clerical positions and ruining our agriculture.

Our recent agricultural history is pitiful, very pitiful, dotted with the lack of any national strategy for the protection of Bulgarian producers.

Our politicians are faithful vassals of our damaging foreign trade policy in this strategic sector and they don't care that local farmers are doomed to losses and are going bankrupt one by one.

Because Krasi Kumchev is not the only one who "slams shutters", figuratively speaking.

In his situation are dozens of producers of peaches from Slivensko, of cereals from Dobrichko, etc.

etc.

It is important to know the truth about why this is so - because the government of Bulgaria has not since yesterday and today demonstrated that "the farmers were eaten by dogs".

The attitude of these pessimistic politicians is shameful, but this is what our territory has.

Krasi Kumchev explained over the phone that he will try to continue growing vegetables.

In people like him, we hope that sometimes and somewhere in the country we can remember what the fruits and vegetables were, with which Bulgaria once taught Europe about gardening.

Krasimir Kumchev: How come you can't find one person in this ministry who understands agriculture?!

I will end this sad and angry comment with the words of Daniela Sivkova, which are always in this emotional shade:

"In the mid-1990s, I was living in Jordan... One day I watched some agrarian program on TV, in which it was told how a new huge apple orchard had been created.

And it turned out that the saplings, as well as the experience of growing them, were obtained from Bulgaria.

And the owners of the orchard stated this with particular aplomb - that is, as long as the varieties are Bulgarian and as long as Bulgarian know-how is applied, this is a guarantee of high quality.

It made me sad then, because the destruction of our agriculture had already begun, but the Jordanians could hardly understand this new Bulgarian "invention" - to wipe out such a serious branch of the economy yourself.

My brother-in-law wondered as I told them: How come, he says, you have some of the richest and most fertile soils... Well, while new orchards were springing up near the desert,

Poor, poor Bulgaria... how many more experiments and mockery can you endure...".

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Krasimir Kumchev