Irrigation in Bulgaria

✍ 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
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00183417

✦ 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