1.CURRENT STATE OF SUPPLY CHAIN OF ORGANIC PRODUCTS IN BULGARIA INTE...

3.1.Current state of supply chain of organic products in Bulgaria

Interviewed experts are in the opinion that in the country does not exist specialized supply chains of organic products. They consider that these are still under construction. Concerning the actual situation, the participants in the survey describe the following supply chains: "Simple" or direct chain: producer or marketing cooperatives and associations of producers offering organic products directly to consumers. Practice is the sale of such products at the farm, on holidays of organic agriculture, on food exhibition in the country and others. "Complex" chain: producers or marketing cooperatives and associations provide their production for specializing shops for organic products or in supermarkets (chains "Family" and "Elemag” in Sofia and Plovdiv). Exports: The producers/processors of the organic production directly exported it. They often export the production to large international company which have supported the production/processing in beginning of it’s emergence. Imports: Biological products (limited number - baby foods, coffee, etc..), which are imported in Bulgaria. Next follows the distribution to retailers, who sell the products to Bulgarian consumers.