Under the drought conditions that have occurred in Bulgaria during the last decade, agricultural use of non-conventional water may be an important resource. This is a specific case of simultaneous purification and utilisation by soil ecological systems. However, using non-conventional quality water
Irrigation in Bulgaria
β Scribed by Plamen Petkov; Stefan Dimitrov
- Book ID
- 104654324
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Year
- 1996
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 588 KB
- Volume
- 40
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0343-2521
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β¦ Synopsis
Agriculture in Bulgaria entered a severe crisis in 1989 following the collapse of the central planning system. Since then it has been going through a transition towards market-based system and a structural transformation from large state cooperatives to smaller privately owned and operated farms and cooperatives. Irrigation, a major water use until recently, has been strongly affected by these processes, and has dropped to a point where less than 15% of the areas equipped for irrigation are actually irrigated. Heavy state investments in the irrigation subsector and its vital importance for the economy make it imperative to up-grade and restructure irrigated agriculture to reflect new forms of land ownership and farming, as well as the current and future organizational patterns of the
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