In the first ten months of 2025, Moldova imported 39.6 thousand tons of soybean meal, including 32.5 thousand tons from Ukraine. The volume of external purchases has already exceeded last year’s level (38.9 thousand tons), but the import of meal this year has not yet stopped.
Earlier, Logos Press wrote that for the sake of loading the local industry, Ukraine introduced a 10% export duty on rapeseed and soybeans from the beginning of September this year. This became an obstacle to the purchase of Ukrainian soybeans by Moldovan processors. In this regard, it is worth noting that over the last five years, more than 90% of imported soybeans came to Moldova precisely from Ukraine. The volume of soybean processing and export of soybean oil and meal from the Republic of Moldova has sharply decreased. At the same time, the supplies of Ukrainian soybean meal to the Moldovan market have significantly increased.
As a result, the price of imported meal in Moldova decreased. “In January-September 2025, the price for this commodity averaged about 6.3 lei/kg, which is about 25% lower than the price in the same period last year,” notes Yurie Rija, an expert in agro-marketing. – Currently, locally produced soybean meal is sold on the domestic market at the price of 6.70-7.50 lei/kg. Moldovan processors are cutting their margins to the limit of profitability in order to remain competitive.
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