The article about the Kulov’s farm „At the Foot of the Balkan“ – „Adding value to Bulgarian dairy farm“ of Chris McCullough – is publishes in the latest newsetter of FACE, the Farmhouse and Artisan Cheese & Dairy Producers European Network. The article is published in Dairy Global (online paper) on 20 August 2019.
Low milk prices and increasing production costs make running a dairy farm in rural Bulgaria challenging. This has caused many farmers to venture into various businesses on their farms to ensure sustainability.
With milk prices in Bulgaria set at around only €0.30 per litre, the Kulov family knew that something had to be done to increase their income. This was achieved by processing the milk themselves, cutting out the middleman, and taking control of all the stages to retail.
Agora Kulov works alongside her father Nikola on the 200-hectare family dairy farm near Plovdiv in southern Bulgaria. Not only does the family farm 300 hectares of lower pastureland and crops, but sheep, cows, buffalo and goats are also milked on the farm to produce milk, cheese, yoghurts and other dairy products. All the livestock are kept outdoors where they can roam freely. All the milking and processing is carried out by the family and the products are sold directly to consumers….
Read more on the following webpage:
https://www.dairyglobal.net/Farm-trends/Articles/2019/8/Adding-value-to-Bulgarian-dairy-farm-463211E/
See here the full text in the FACE newsletter (December 2019).