Эдуард Лисовой

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.

In the structure of bean trade on the Moldovan market, imports account for 98%, while exports account for only 2%,” Logos Press reported.

The last batches of this product arrived yesterday, at the same time the website contingente.trade.gov.md posted information about the closure of this quota, – reports Logos Press.

At least 800 thousand tons of products from 414 thousand hectares of sunflower crops will be harvested by Moldovan farmers this year, – reports Logos Press.

The long, unequal and nervous struggle of Moldovan meat processors with the pork shortage ended with a “small and short truce”.

The production of Moldovan cattle breeding products (in comparable prices) decreased by 5.1% in January-June 2025 compared to the same period last year, – reports Logos Press with reference to the press release of the National Bureau of Statistics.

The area sown with cereals and leguminous crops for the harvest-2025 in Moldova decreased by 2.5% compared to the last year’s indicator, while the area sown with industrial crops increased by 8.5%, – reports Logos Press with reference to the press release of the National Bureau of Statistics.

In the last marketing year (from July 2024 to July 2025), Moldova imported much more peas than exported this valuable legume, Logos Press reported.

A little more than 300 tons of frozen pork importers have left to import into Moldova duty-free, Logos Press reported.