Economic resources

Agriculture & Stock breeding

The lands, with a gentle and undulating morphology, are very fertile and this makes it possible for agriculture to flourish. The valley zones are characterised by the black earth, known as chernozems and alluvial soils.
The corn cultivation takes the biggest share.


The basic crops are winter wheat, maize, and sunflower, orchards, vineyards.
To these can be added the cultivations of winter barley and oats.
The rose growing develop successfuly in the last few years.


The gardens of the village have vegetables like tomatoes, potatoes, cucumbers, caulflowers, peppers, aubergines, sugar beets etc.
Most popular of legumes there are beans, peas, lentils.
The orchard developed outside the village are mostly municipal private property.
There are a tipical Bulgarian friuts like peaches, apricots, cherries, apples, pears, plums etc.

The cultivable land of the village’s territory is worked by two farming cooperatives.






Breeding involves above cattle, ovines, pigs and poultry.
The people develop the stock breeding due to the many natural and human made meadows.
The agriculture and the stock breeding enjoy an appreciate tradition.

In the past the cannery industry, famose in Bulgaria were developed here, but today the production is interromped.

The vine- growing

The vineyards are located on the hills.
The foreign sorts of grapes grown are Cabernet Sauvignon, Muscat of Hamburg, Sensò, Riesling, Adam Muscat.
The tipical bulgarian sorts and the traditional vines of the Danubian Valley, there are Gamza, Bulgar, Pamid, Dimiat, Fetiaska Alba etc.

 

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