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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?
Exports of Moldovan wine products in 2024 showed the best result in the last ten years, reaching $234.7 million, which is 22% more than in 2023. The lion’s share of revenues ($154 million) came from bottled wines and divines.
In the 2024 season, wineries in Moldova processed 179 thousand tons of grapes, which is 32% less than in the previous year. From this amount, 11.7 million dal of wine materials were produced (-34%). These data were presented by the National Bureau of Grapes and Wine (NBG&W) at the sectoral republican conference on the results of work for the last year.
The topic of subsidizing the agro-industrial sector this spring has been on the newscasts of RM with encouraging regularity. The Agency for Interventions and Payments in Agriculture AIPA reports on the amounts paid to farmers. The Parliament, at the Government’s request, amends the state budget in order to replenish the Fund for Agricultural and Rural Subsidies-2025. The bill on new principles of financing and monitoring of the agricultural sector is passed in the first reading. It seems that the work is boiling and everything is in order with subsidies for farmers, despite their background murmurings. But is it so?
Long-term meteorological forecasts in times of global climate transformation are interesting, thankful, but not very reliable. Nevertheless, the world information space has already repeatedly announced that the coming summer will be among the three hottest in the history of observations. Whether it is so, or nature will have mercy – time will show. Nevertheless, in any case, in order to get economically significant harvest, it makes sense for Moldovan farmers to sow drought-resistant crops – “camels”. One of such crops is grain sorghum.
