PERSONAL REPORT:
“Hunting House – Bor” – as an innovation in
OSOGOVO STATE GAME – BREEDING STATION
By Zlatina Georgieva
University of Forestry, Sofia, Bulgaria
Information for the report from:
INNOFOREST
Enterprise:
Osogovo State Game - Breeding Station
Address:
Bulgaria, Kyustendil; Str. “Spartak”52
Interviewed person:
Engineer Vasil Purov – Head Manager
Information sources Assistant directors - Engineer Maryana
(documents, persons): Stoimenova and Engineer Marina Velinova
Kalina Peeva - Head accountant
financial statement - assets and liabilities ,
financial report - turnover, profit, expenses;
personnel and others.
OSOGOVO STATE GAME – BREEEDING STATION
The Osogovo State Game - Breeding Station (OSGBS) is
made in 1996 as a part of National Direction of Forest of Bulgaria.
It is called after the name of the mountain Osogovo at the foot of
which is located the town of Kyustendil. The residence of the
OSGBS is in Kyustendil situated at a distance of 90 km from the
capital city of Sofia and at 20 km of the national border with the
Republic of Macedonia.
The relief of the mountain of Osogovo is very rugged. The
slopes at the upper parts of the mountain have a slight declination
whereas under some water streams they are steep and abrupt.
The highest peak is Rouen with its 2251m above sea-level. Here
prevails the typical mountain climate. The forest consist mainly of
beech (Fagus sylvatica) and white pine (Pinus sylvestris) tree and
are dwelled by wild–boar (Sus scrofa), roe deer (Capreolus
capreolus), wild rabbit (Lepus europaeus), wolf (Canis lupus),
jackal (Canis aureus), fox (Vulpes vulpes), wild cat (Felix
sylvestris), marten (Martes martes), badger (Meles meles) and
others. On the territory of OSGBS one can hunt wild–boar, roe,
fox, wolf, wild cat, ring-dove, partridge and quail.
The trophy for wild-boar is 22cm, a trophy of roe-deer 350 g.
The OSGBS offers ecological, horse riding, hunting and
fishing tourism.
Attractive shelters and rest places are available alongside
with a lot of camping possibilities in maximum harmony with the
environment.
Business area: Forestry and harvesting
Subject of business activities:
 harvesting
 saving and enriching the diversity of the game, building of
hunting facilities and carrying out biotechnical activities;
reproduction, resettlement, saving and protection of the
game; improve on externals and trophy qualities of the
game;
 Plant-growing
 Organizing hunting tourism
Structure and Administration of NHS “Osogovo”
Head Staff:
Post
1.Director (Manager)
Engineer Vasil Purov
2.Assistant director
Engineer Maryana
Stoimenova
3.Assistant director
Engineer Marina
Velinova
Function
Organization and
Management
Hunting and
indulgence of
activities to other
firms
Sylviculture and
Forest- protection
Qualification
Higher education
Higher education
Higher education
Administration:
1. Head accountant (1 person)
2. Accountant - 1
3. Cashier - 1
4. Analytic specialist - 3
Personnel:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
Head foresters- ( 3 persons ) –head of forest а range
Foresters- 3
Hunting guard - 2
Forest guard – 10
Seasonal worker – 5
Technicians – 10
Production workman -5
Drivers – 4
Total: 51
 Material and technical foundation:
Long assets:
1. Buildings and constructions:
- Administration building -1 number
- Buildings – 4
- Nursery-Gardens – 2
- Rest-hoses – 2
- Apartment – 1
- Shelters – 2
2. Machines and equipment:
- Rope-way – 1
- Motor Sledge - 2
- Snow- plough – 1
- Generator -1
- Tap - 3
- Mowing-machine – 1
- Iron–machine – 1
- UV lamp - 1
- Band-belt-saw – 1
- UV lamp – 1
- Biotechnical equipment: чакало – 12; rack – 20; mire -2
Equipment
- Roads – 6
- Corral -3 (Total area - 179 ha);
3. Means of transport (Vehicles):
- Motorcycles - 2
- Motors – 8
- Mini – bus - 1
- Trucks – 4
4. Computers – 9
5. Furnishing
- Copying machine -1
- Camera – 1
- TV set – 9
- Ice – box – 6
- Washing machine -2
- Sink – 1
- Stove – 1
- Grill -1
- Bar – 1
- Steam – boiler – 1
- Shot – gun – 2
6. Others:
- Horses – 30
Big Game (Spring Counting 2007)
Dama
dama
♀
20
Capreolus
capreolus
♂
31
♀
61
♂
63
Sus
scrofa
Cervus
elaphus
199
41
Small Game:
Lepus
Phasianus Perdix Alectoris Canis Vulpes
Felix
europaeus colchicus perdix chukar lupus vulpes sylvestris
115
60
45
25
10
35
40
Production:
Harvesting
Cut
Realize
2005 (m3)
26260.19
25949.28
2006 (m3)
30369.84
30936.59
Annual profits (Tab. 1)
Activity
Forestry and harvesting
Retail trade
Hotels, hostels and rest houses
Total:
* Values are approximate.
2005
750000 €
94000 €
95000 €
939000 €
2006
954000 € *
122000 €
140000 €
1216000 €
Increase (%)
27.2
29.8
47.4
29.5
Innovation activities:
The most important innovation in the Game breeding station
Osogovo is “Hunting House – Bor” – located 10 km of Kyustendil
and 100 km south-west of the capital Sofia. It is located in an ideal
hunting, but easily accessible, area of the Osogovo Mountain in
Bulgaria. The hotel has 12 excellently furnished rooms and 3 luxury
apartment, a restaurant, a reference hall, fitness and sauna. The hotel is
a real paradise for the hunters and for everyone who wishes to spend a
pleasant evening among family or friends.
The restaurant offers a lovely atmosphere and a rich variety of local
and national specialties and dishes of game meat.
This building is an innovation in this part of the country and the
Regional Forestry Economic. It is an extra convenience for the hunters
from Bulgaria and other countries.
The Hunting House – Bor is one of the biggest in the country.
The rooms and apartments enable Osogovo State Game - Breeding
Station to improve the hunting tourism – individual and group at a
high level.
The innovation strategy includes:
- Enriching the game diversity – resettlement attractive and
rare game. Conservation of the trophy makings and rich
population of the game at the moment.
- Horsing tourism – Osogovo Game Breeding Station offer to
the gests – horse riding – for hunting or a trip in the
Osogovo Mountain. It is really a wonderful attraction for
addicts of the nature.
- Walking tour in the breeding areas – look on and photo the
game.
- Mountain hiking and picking forest fruit.
This innovation enable the enterprise to use the new building
“Bor” in all season of the year –not only in the hunting season. The
complex is successfully using at the moment as a hotel for all comers
tourists – not only for hunters. This is the main advantage for the
Osogovo Game Breeding Station. The combination of rich vegetation,
rivers and mountain streams and vast highland meadows, creates
favourable conditions for true relaxation throughout the year.
The
location of the Hunting house – at 100 km of the Bulgarian capital and
20 km at the borders of the Republic Macedonia and Serbia is an
advantage to focus attention of foreigner hunters and tourists.
Kyustendil municipality and community of the town said: “It is
beneficial for our town at all. It promotes the recreation and the
tourism as a part of economy of our region.”
Some private hotels have built for the last year near by the
Hunting House - Bor. It assists development of recreation in the
mountain but it is rivals for the national enterprise – unfortunately
some of them are unfair competition (one of the threats for the
enterprise).
The Hunting House Bor is built 2006 with own recourses and the
financial support of the Government and Municipalityof Kyustendil.
(Approximately 200000 € - for the building and 60000 € for the
furnishing).
- The enterprise built and a road to the Hunting house in
cooperation with a local firm – the one external connection in a
private sector.
Economic outcomes:
1. Increase the profits for the last six months with 16%.
2. Realizing the harvesting wood material in the building and
furniture of the Hunting House.
3. Increase popularity of the Osogovo Game Breeding Station and
the town of Kyustendil.
4. Develop the recreation in the all region.
5. Increase the game diversity in the mountain.
6. Attract many tourists from Bulgaria and foreigners.
AWOT analysis:
SWOT FACTORS:
Strenghts:
1.Varied custemers
2.High quality of the offer service
3.Use the best advantage - wood, game and non-wood products
4.Reasonable price
5.Unique for the region
6.Location
Weaknesses
1. Insufficient advertisment
2. Limited staff
3. Limited guides for the foreigner tourists
Opportunities
1. New tourists from Europian Union
2. Increase the profits for one year with 30 %
3. Increase popularity of the enterprise and the town of Kyustendil.
4. Increase the game diversity
Threats
1. Ecological pollution in the sequel of the excessive development
of the recreation
2. Unfair competition
3. Poaching
RESULTS:
• Strenght – 0.324
• Opportunity – 0.281
• Weakness – 0.194
• Threat – 0.201
AWOT
strenght
threat
0,35
0,3
0,25
0,2
0,15
0,1
0,05
0
opportunity
weakness
AWOT analysis shows the highest values of strengths and
opportunities of the innovation product.
The enterprise has to develop the opportunities and eliminate
weaknesses of the innovation product at the moment. But don’t ignore
the threats of the innovation as an important part in the future
development.
In conclusion:
The innovation – Hunting house - Bor is a good investment in
the forest recreation field. It ensures high opportunities for
development of The Osogovo State Game- Breeding Station –
attract many tourists from European Union and increase the profits of
the enterprise.