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Logos Press correspondent talked to the General Director of Orhei Vit Company Boris Efimov about the realities and prospects of the world and Moldovan market of “industrial apple” and apple concentrate.

At the beginning of this week, Alexandru Munteanu, candidate for prime minister, held a “round of consultations” with representatives of associations of producers of agro-food products. The dialog, according to the general opinion of the participants, was constructive. However, at that time, farmers and processors did not yet know about the choice of a candidate for the post of head of the MAIA Ministry of Agriculture and Food Industry.

The slow pace of the 2025 maize harvest campaign due to high soil moisture in the fields and grain in the cob increases the risk of deterioration in the quality of these products, especially when they are stored. This is the case in many countries in the Northern Black Sea region, but especially in Ukraine and Moldova.

In a situation where earnings are declining, many people are choosing the obvious way to “make ends meet” – to spend less. Farmers who are conservative in their reactions to the slowdown in the global agricultural economy are cutting costs. Among other things, they prefer to buy new farm equipment, repair it properly and use the existing one with care.

A growing number of “world-renowned” experts are signaling that the global agri-food economy has entered a period of recession. High harvests of grain and oilseed crops in a number of major producing countries fuel their high (excessive) supply. At the same time, effective demand and food prices are declining almost everywhere in the world. Moldova is fully in this trend.

The two-week break in the harvesting campaign due to the abnormally long period of October precipitation has changed a lot in the apple segment of Moldovan fruit growing. Moldova Fruct management has not yet changed its summer forecast for the 2025 apple crop, but fruit market operators believe that by November the adjustment will certainly take place.

KVINT has rebranded with the help of a French company that works with the “Big Four” great cognac houses. The familiar logo in the form of a coat of arms and the slogan “Tradition and Excellence” are replaced by a new sign, made in a modern style, which is accompanied by the phrase Single Estate since 1897, which reflects the essence of this producer.

The sugar season has not yet passed the conditional equator. A lot of sugar beet is still wet in the fields, and it will be good if it does not freeze later. But sugar growers and Moldovan authorities have no doubts that in 2025-26 marketing year the country will have enough of its own sugar (and some more European sugar for balance).

In the Republic of Moldova, the installation of one of the country’s most powerful agro-industrial facilities has been completed — a complex for rapeseed processing and rapeseed oil production at the Floarea Soarelui SA plant.

In many agro-climatic models of the present and near future, practically the whole territory of the Republic of Moldova belongs to the zone of risky agriculture. Frequent and constantly tightening droughts lead to a decrease in agricultural productivity, while high prices for fuel, fertilizers and phytosanitary products reduce the profitability of agricultural production. In this context, the choice of crops for crop rotations is beginning to play a key role in agribusiness, without any alternatives.

ProWein Düsseldorf remains one of the leading and most authoritative wine and spirits industry shows in the world. The experts are unanimous: anyone who wants to be successful on the international market should go to Düsseldorf, because the important people in the industry gather here.

According to USDA’s U.S. Department of Agriculture, global wheat reserves for end-use in 2025 have fallen to a level comparable to the corresponding figure for 2015.
