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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.
The current production and commercial season may become one of the most eventful for the sugar beet complex in Moldova. It started with almost zero stocks of marketable sugar and attempts to expand the area under sugar beet. It continued with the most large-scale death of crops from late spring frosts and no less large-scale reseeding. And it will probably end with a surprisingly good sugar beet harvest and a solid volume of sugar produced. But its prices are unlikely to fully satisfy both sugar producers and sugar consumers.
The information channels of the European Commission, followed by a few Moldovan mass media, reported that at the beginning of the second decade of September, Moldovan exporters fully utilized the then valid annual quota for duty-free supplies of plums to the EU market. By a “happy coincidence” (or maybe due to it), the closure of the export euro quota coincided with the seasonal decline in prices and a drop in external sales of plums.
Claims to one of the quality parameters of Moldovan wheat by some buyers in the EU countries may reduce its competitiveness on the European market.
At the end of next week Moldovan winegrowers will start mass harvesting of table grapes of the main export variety – “Moldova”. In general, the good condition of “Moldova” plantations allows us to hope that in 2025 the export of table grapes will exceed the record of 2023 – about 84 thousand tons.
In the previous few seasons on the fruit market of Moldova, the ratio of dessert apple (“frosh”, for the “fresh market”) to industrial apple (for all types of processing) was about 30/70. In the best case – 40/60. This year, because of the specific conditions that are coming up, the balance may change in favor of “frosh”. But it is not certain yet.
The graph of seasonal dynamics of prices for many fruits in Moldova looks like the relief of a rocky terrain – a gorge between two mountains. One peak is the beginning of the sales season, the second peak is its end. The specifics of the season are usually in how precipitous the descent and ascent are, how deep and wide the bottom of the gorge is. Last week, the Moldovan plum market reached this very bottom.
The sunflower harvest campaign is gaining momentum in Moldova. In parallel, production forecasts, market strategies and prices are changing cyclically.
In the 2024-25 marketing season, sunflower oil exports from Moldova experienced a difficult period – an unprecedented decline in performance in all major categories.
A potential harvest of only 276 thousand tons was announced by the Moldovan delegation at Prognosfruit-2025 (Angers, France). This is an annual international conference under the auspices of the World Apple and Pear Producers Association (WAPA) dedicated to forecasts of these fruits. A modest forecast is putting it mildly. However, to declare more, and in fact to give out in turnover less is to mislead.
In 2025, the sunflower harvest in Moldova will be higher than last year. Its price, judging by the market dynamics in the last months of the last marketing season, also demonstrates, albeit timid, but still, the potential for growth. Will these two factors be sufficient for Moldova to keep the ambiguous status of “pure and large” exporter of this oilseed raw material in the new marketing season? Or are there possible variants?
Moldovan beekeepers, during a meeting of the Advisory Council for Beekeeping under the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Industry MAIA, reported a number of serious problems in the sector and once again requested the assistance of the Cabinet of Ministers.
The long, unequal and nervous struggle of Moldovan meat processors with the pork shortage ended with a “small and short truce”.
As the harvesting campaign approaches, the forecast of the second group of field crops becomes more and more “uncomfortable topic”. Because some farmers will have nothing to harvest, but gloom is a sin. And other farmers will have something to brag about, but vanity is also a sin.
In Moldova, the rape harvest will be completed next week. By the end of the harvesting campaign, preliminary estimates of the production of this crop have increased, while the domestic and foreign trade context has changed significantly. Is it for the better? It is an open question.
Due to too high prices for berries and early stone fruits, canning enterprises in Moldova had to cut back their programs of processing these raw materials.
This week, gardeners in the south and center of Moldova started harvesting plums of the most widespread in the country early varieties – “Petestianca” and “Caciasca early”. The demand for fruits of the first harvest is high. According to the fruit market operators, the starting wholesale price is set in the range of 9-15 lei/kg. In retail stores, price tags for the first Moldovan plum, depending on its quality – caliber, density, stage of ripeness – are about 40-50 lei/kg.
