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Heavy but not heavy rains, popularly called “shepherds’ rains”, by the end of May revived the hopes of Moldovan farmers for a decent berry harvest in 2025.
Control of Purcari Wineries Group will be taken over by a Polish investor, Maspex Romania, which is part of the Maspex Group – the largest private food and beverage company in Poland and one of the largest in Central and Eastern Europe.
Logos Press provided the Association of Pork Producers of Moldova (APCPM) and the Patronate of Meat Processing Industries (PÎIPC) with a platform for public discussion.
The XXIII “Vernissage of Wines”, held on May 16, was dedicated to the tenth anniversary of the production of wines with protected geographical indication (IGP) in Moldova. The theme of the event was proposed by the Grape and Wine Union of the delimited geographical region Valul lui Traian, in order to show consumers which domestic wines have obtained the right to use the quality category of wines with IGP.
The Law on Grapes and Wine has undergone another procedure of harmonization with the EU legislation. This will further integrate Moldovan producers into the pan-European wine market.
Moldova’s growth plan for 2025-2027, signed this week by Prime Minister Dorin Recean and European Commissioner for Enlargement Marta Kos, in the section on investments in the agricultural sector provides for donor funding for rehabilitation/modernization of centralized irrigation systems, reforestation and reconstruction of local roads. Farmers believe that this is useful, but not enough.
The Combinatul de vinuri Cricova S.A. complex, which includes galleries of the former stone adit and underground structures (including tasting rooms), an ensemble of above-ground buildings with adjacent territories and landscape areas, will be included in the Register of Monuments of the Republic of Moldova protected by the state.
Wholesale prices for pork increased by about 10-12% from mid-April to mid-May. If in the middle of last month industrial pig farms offered their products to meat processing plants at an average price of 64 lei/kg, by the middle of May the price reached an average of 70 lei/kg. This was reported to Logos Press correspondent by the Patronate of Meat Processing Industry Enterprises PÎIPC.
Consumers in Moldova do not really understand the difference between wines with IGP and wines without IGP. Winemakers constantly talk about this. In domestic retail, these wines are not distinguished in any way, as it is customary, for example, in other countries. Therefore, even on the domestic market, it is difficult to sell wines with IGP more expensive, despite their higher quality and cost price.
In Moldova, the sales season for apples of the 2024 crop is nearing its end. Some large traders claim that export-quality stocks were exhausted as early as April, commodity balances are small, and they are interested in the domestic market “only insofar as”. There are market operators who believe that chain retailers in late spring – early summer may even face the need to import quality apples to RM.
The April FAO Food Price Index (FFPI) is up 1% from its March level. The increase does not seem to be large. And the attempt to correlate the global food market movement with the galloping growth of food prices in the Republic of Moldova looks strange. But only at first glance.
Moldovan winemaking companies say that one of the reasons for the decrease in the competitiveness of their products is the rise in the price of the bottle. Its main purchases are made in Moldova. In search of cheaper glass, winemakers turn to imports. They believe that the shift in their demand cannot but affect the main supplier of wine bottles to domestic wineries – Vetropack Chişinău.
The spring “Vernissage of Wines” will take place on May 16. Its slogan is “Origin and Authenticity: 10 years of wines with protected geographical indication”. The XXIII “Vernissage of Wines” is dedicated to wines with IGP, because 10 years ago the first harvest of grapes in Moldova was processed for the production of these wines.
If we measure the temperature of Moldovan agriculture by the volume of imports of mineral fertilizers, we can conclude that the health of this very important component of the national economy is far from all right.
We have already got used to the fact that the development of marketing of agricultural and food products in the Republic of Moldova at the system (sectoral/sectoral) level is supported by international donors with ideas and funding. In the last decade, USAID and the World Bank have been particularly active in this area. However, times change, and donors change with them.
After Moldova lost the right to use the name “Cahor” (in any spelling) in 2018, the production volume of this wine under the new name Pastoral rapidly decreased. On foreign markets, trade partners lost interest in the product under an unknown name. Accordingly, the main market for it became the home market.
Starting from 2021, there is a hardly noticeable, but still obvious tendency to increase the insured areas in Moldova. In 2023, the best result for five years was recorded so far – 18.6 thousand hectares, which is 1.2% of the total agricultural area of Moldova. Last year, even these indicators fell slightly. At the same time, the share of premiums for agricultural risk insurance in 2024 amounted to only 4.5% (110 million lei) of the total size of the insurance market in Moldova (2.4 billion lei). This is evidenced by the research of the expert Iurie Rizhi, Chairman of the Agroxereale Association.
In the Netherlands, too, there are non-official ambassadors of Moldovan wines who promote them in this country with their own efforts. Two Moldovans, brothers Alexandru and Iulian Buza, import wines from Moldova and sell them in their restaurant in The Hague and in an online store. They see their mission as promoting the rich heritage of Moldovan winemaking and fine Moldovan wines.
Home wine, although gradually losing its position in the preferences of Moldovan consumers, still remains the leader. This is evidenced by the data of the study of Moldovan consumers’ behavior of alcoholic beverages, which was conducted by Xplane company at the request of NBV&V.
Recently, a rating blogger-politician (recognizable by his kushma) threw into the newscasts of RM and, ricochet, Romania a video about how Romanian-Moldovan border is crossed by cattle trucks with pigs – for slaughter. In this regard, numerous Moldovan commentators in social networks and chat rooms broke out with tirades in the spirit of “this is how they kill Moldovan pig breeding”. However, given the complex epizootic situation in the European Union in general and Romania in particular, it would be more appropriate to ask: “how did these (presumably Hungarian) pigs cross the whole of Romania and end up on the Moldovan border?
