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1.
Overview:
a.
Total
Area: 110,879 sq km
b.
Total Population:
7,037,935 (July 2012 est.)
i.
Agricultural Population – 7.1%
ii.
Total labour force – 2.465 million (2011 est.)
c.
GDP:
$101 billion (2011 est.)
d.
GDP - real growth rate: 1.7% (2011 est.)
e.
GDP – per capita: $13,800 (2011 est.)
f.
GDP - composition by sector:
i.
agriculture: 5.6%
ii.
industry: 31.1%
iii.
services: 63.2% (2011 est.)
g.
Investment (gross fixed): 20.9% of GDP (2011 est.)
h.
Unemployment rate: 9.6% (2011 est.)
i.
People under poverty line: 21.8% (2008)
j.
Industries: electricity, gas, water; food, beverages, tobacco;
machinery and equipment, base metals, chemical products, coke,
refined petroleum, nuclear fuel
k.
Industrial production growth rate: 5.9% (2011 est.)
2.
Trade:
a.
Total Exports: $28.12 billion (2011 est.)
b.
Exports commodities: clothing, footwear, iron and
steel, machinery and equipment, fuels
c.
Export partners: Germany 12.2%, Romania 9.7%, Italy
8.7%, Turkey 8.1%, Greece 7.2%, Belgium 5.2%, France 4.3% (2011)
d.
Total Import: $30.86 billion (2011 est.)
e.
Imports commodities: machinery and equipment; metals
and ores; chemicals and plastics; fuels, minerals, and raw
materials
f.
Import partners: Russia 17.8%, Germany 11.1%, Italy 7.2%,
Romania 7%, Greece 5.7%, Spain 5.1%, Turkey 4.6% (2011)
g.
CO2 emissions (MT): 6.63
3.
Climate, Land &
Agriculture:
a.
Climate: temperate; cold, damp winters; hot, dry
summers
b.
Total Agricultural Land Area: 51160.0 sq. km.
c.
Land Use:
i.
Arable land: 29.94%
ii.
Permanent crops: 1.9%
iii.
Irrigated land: 1,020 sq km
iv.
Other: 68.16%
d.
Major Agricultural commodities: vegetables, fruits,
tobacco, wine, wheat, barley, sunflowers, sugar beets; livestock
4.
Major Industrial
Activities where jute can be used: food
processing; pharmaceuticals, and textile and clothing; leather
goods, footwear and apparel manufacturers; automobile
industries, packing industries, paper mills.
5.
Environmental
information & data:
Environment Current
Issues: air pollution from industrial emissions; rivers
polluted from raw sewage, heavy metals, detergents;
deforestation; forest damage from air pollution and resulting
acid rain; soil contamination from heavy metals from
metallurgical plants and industrial wastes
6.
Jute Statistics:
Import of jute and
bast fibres by Bulgaria in recent years
|
Year |
Quantity (tones) |
|
2010 |
3 |
|
2009 |
2 |
|
2008 |
6 |
|
2007 |
36 |
7.
Any special
information which is related to jute:
Top export
commodities which may need jute packing: Quantity: tonnes
|
Commodities |
2010 |
2009 |
|
Wheat |
2293123 |
1771182 |
|
Maize |
650566 |
572003 |
|
Cigarette |
13338 |
8189 |
|
wine |
50560 |
54224 |
8.
Associate
Members: N/A
9.
Govt.
Department/Ministry dealing with jute:
§
Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry
www.mzgar.government.bg
§
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
www.mfa.bg
§
Ministry of Environment and Water
www.moew.government.bg
GREEN WORLD GROUP LTD.
Office address:
Bulgaria , Varna - 9000,
Ivan Vazov 3 Тel:+359/52390044
Tel:+359/52390033
Fax:+359/52401753
Mob:+359/878391133
10.
IJO and IJSG Collaboration:
Ø
Bulgaria is the present member of IJSG from the European Union
Sources:
http://www.tradingeconomics.com/bulgaria/co2-emissions-metric-tons-per-capita-wb-data.html
http://www.tradingeconomics.com/bulgaria/agricultural-land-percent-of-land-area-wb-data.html
http://www.investbulgaria.eu/a/about-bulgaria/economy/leading-industries.html
http://www.mapsofworld.com/bulgaria/economy/bulgarian-industries.html
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/sf.html
http://faostat.fao.org/site/666/default.aspx
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