Ministry of Agriculture and Food (Bulgaria)

The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (Bulgarian: Министерство на земеделието и горите, Ministerstvo na zemedelieto i gorite) of Bulgaria is the ministry charged with regulating agriculture and forestry in the country. It was founded as the Ministry of Agriculture and State Property on 24 July 1911, when it was separated from the Ministry of Commerce and Agriculture.

The current Minister of Agriculture and food is Miroslav Naydenov, with Deputy Ministers Tsvetan Dimitrov and Svetlana Boyanova.^[1]

List of formers Ministers of agriculture 1969-2009

• Minister of agriculture and food industry - Valkan Shopov - December 1969 - October 1973
• Minister of agriculture and food industry - Gancho Krastev - October 1973 - April 1978
• Minister of agriculture and food industry - Grigor Stoichkov - April 1978 - April 1979
• Minister president of Nacional agrarianidustri union (NAIU) - Vasil Canov - April 1979 - May 1981
• Minister president of NAIU - Aleksander Petkov - May 1981 - March 1986
• Minister of agriculture and forestry - Alexi Ivanov - March 1986 - December 1988
• Minister of agriculture and forestry - Georgi Menov - December 1988 - February 1990
• Minister of agriculture and food industry - Todor Pandov - February - December 1990
• Minister of agriculture - Boris Spirov - December 1990 - November 1991
• Minister of agriculture - Stanislav Dimitrov - November 1991 - May 1992
• Minister of agricultural development - Georgi Stoianov - May - December 1992
• Minister of agriculture - Georgi Tanev - December 1992 - October 1994
• Minister of agriculture - Rumen Hristov - October 1994 - January 1995
• Minister of agriculture and food industry - Vasil Chichibaba - January 1995 - January 1996
• Minister of agriculture and food industry - Svetoslav Shivarov - January - June 1996
• Minister of agriculture and food industry - Krastio Trendafilov - June 1996 - February 1997
• Minister of agriculture and food - Rumen Hristov - February - May 1997
• Minister of agriculture and forestry - Vencislav Varbanov - May 1997 - July 2001
• Minister of agriculture and forestry - Mehmet Dikme - July 2001 - February 2005
• Minister of agriculture and forestry and food supply - Nihat Kabil - February 2005 - April 2008
• Minister of agriculture and food - Valeri Cvetanov - April 2008 - July 2009

References

1. ↑ "Bulgaria PM Borisov Appoints 24 Deputy Ministers". Novinite.com. 2009-08-03. Retrieved 2012-11-02. 

External links

• Official website (Bulgarian) (English)