| Newspaper Name: |
Български фермер |
| Newspaper name in English: |
The Bulgarian Farmer |
| Owner: |
Медийна Група България |
| Publisher: |
Вестникарска група България (ВГБ) ООД |
| Country / Region: |
Bulgaria (Sofia) |
| Language: |
Bulgarian |
| Format type: |
Newspaper |
| Category: |
Дача, сад, огород |
| Political alignment: |
None |
| Frequency: |
Weekly |
| Publication Years (print version): |
1990 — now (33 years) |
| Publication Years (digital version): |
2009 — now (14 years) |
| Circulation: |
12,000 (2015) |
| Official Pages: |
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| Website: |
bgfermer.bg [read with translation] |
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«Български фермер» or «Bulgarian Farmer» is a popular weekly agricultural newspaper in Bulgaria, dedicated to agribusiness, agrotechnics and agricultural technologies, crop production and animal husbandry, beekeeping, gardening and horticulture. In English, the newspaper's name means «Bulgarian Farmer». Newspaper has been published on Mondays on about 40 pages in Sofia since 1990, and is distributed mainly in the provinces. The newspaper is aimed at everyone involved in agribusiness and agriculture: directly land owners, farmers, agronomists, summer residents; manufacturers of agricultural machinery, seeds, medicines; representatives of food markets, end users. The supplement to the newspaper is a «ХОБИ Фермер» or «HOBI Farmer» magazine, offers a lot of informative thematic articles: Zelenchutsi or Zelenchukova gradina (Green bed), Ovoshki or Vegetable gradina (Vegetable bed), Tsvetya or Tsvetna gradina (Flower bed), Cooking, Domashen lekar (traditional medicine), Domashna farm (farming). This is not the only agricultural newspaper in Bulgaria, its main competitor is «
Земя» (Zemya), which has been familiar to readers since the Soviet era, but this newspaper is more modern.
The structure of the newspaper consists of 3 sections: agrosphere news and useful information, current trends and technologies, useful tips and recommendations. The newspaper annually awards the title of «Agribusinessman in Bulgaria» to the best entrepreneur who has proved himself best in the field of agribusiness. This award is considered very prestigious and is presented at the annual meeting of farmers with the participation of the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Forests, as well as the State Fund for Agriculture. Since 2016, other awards have been awarded at this meeting.
The electronic version of the newspaper «Български фермер» has been available on the Internet since 2009. Today it is the most visited online resource in Bulgaria in the category «Gardening, Horticulture and Agriculture». It is based on a news feed, an article section, and a page with video files. The reader will find a lot of interactive, analytical and reference information here, some of the articles are borrowed from the printed version, but most of them are published only here.
