I was a baby wearing nappies when my parents Sylva and Fana founded the agricultural business SYFANY. My father used to work as a maintenance worker of agricultural machinery in JZD (Unified Agricultural Cooperative) before and by the time the cooperative fell apart they started to farm the family fields. In the beginning they did a lot of greengrocery – cauliflowers, cabbage... later on they started to plant also root vegetable. They were self-sufficient – quality soil, own plants. They did direct sell, later they were selling also to shops. The agriculture gradually expanded to include more land areas. The turning point came when vegetables began to recede due to lack of human labour – the old retired and the young were not attracted by work on fields. We only kept carrots, vineyards were planted and we switched to cereal growing.

Nowadays we farm about 400 hectares of land and 36 hectares of vineyards in almost the same group of people for the last 20 years.