Grain growers blocked traffic at Danube Bridge border crossing at Rousse

Grain Growers in Rousse staged a protest on March 29. With tractors, at 10 o'clock, they blocked the entrance to the border crossing "Danube Bridge". The blockade lasted about an hour and a half.

Their main demand was for the state to veto the duty-free import of produce from Ukraine. The dissatisfaction is also against the low price at which they sell their produce and the impossibility to sell the domestic production, which stays in warehouses.

There were also protests in Vidin, Kardam and Silistra. At a meeting with protesting grain growers from Vidin, Agriculture Minister Yavor Gechev said that Bulgaria would demand additional measures related to European legislation to support grain producers in Bulgaria.

The protests will go on for 3 days.