Depopulation of the country and rural areas of Bulgaria and development of digital and precision agriculture in them

University of economics - Varna, Faculty of Economics, Department “Agricultural Economics”

^* Corresponding author: ggss@ue-varna.bg

Abstract

During the last decades and years of transition, Bulgaria has seen extremely unfavorable and negative trends in its natural growth. It is entirely negative and reinforced by the rate of net migration and the widespread aging of the country's population leads to very unfavorable results for the population in the rural areas of the country. At the same time, the prerequisites for implementing precision and digital agriculture are being successfully developed in the world, Europe and Bulgaria.The purpose of the present study is to analyze the situation in the country from a demographic point of view, to determine whether the declining population in rural areas is not a prerequisite for the faster emergence of the process of digitization and precision agriculture in rural areas of Bulgaria.For the purposes of our research, scientific, statistical methods, as well as methods of induction, deduction, comparative analysis, GAP analysis were used, and its results can be successfully used and applied by all interested parties.