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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.
April 2025 was marked by a rare anomaly in the foreign trade of sunflower meal produced in Moldova, – reports Logos Press.
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.
During the period July 2024 – April 2025, sunflower oil exports from Moldova collapsed in all indicators – both in quantity and value terms, – reports Logos Press with reference to the Agrocereale Association.
The beginning of May 2025 was marked by the first signs of slowdown in the export of Moldovan sunflower. In the first week of the month, slightly more than 2,000 tons of sunflower were exported abroad,” Logos Press reported.
May frosts could significantly adjust the not bad forecast for the 2025 plum crop for the worse,” Logos Press reports.
Wholesale pork prices increased about 10-12% from mid-April to mid-May,” according to Logos Press.
Since the beginning of May, the wholesale price for strawberries in Moldova has increased on average by 5-10 lei/kg – up to 75-80 lei/kg, – reports Logos Press.
The Association Moldova Fruct estimated the amount of damage caused by April frosts to the horticulture and viticulture sector of Moldova at about 741 million lei,” reports Logos Press.
The volume of marketable production in the berry sector of fruit growing in 2025 will be lower than in the previous two seasons, which means that it would be logical that the prices would be higher as well, according to Dmitry Dodică, an expert in the berry business, – reports Logos Press.
Moldova’s growth plan for 2025-2027, signed recently by Prime Minister Dorin Recean and European Commissioner for Enlargement Marta Kos, in the section on investments in the agricultural component of the national economy, provides for donor financing for the rehabilitation of centralized irrigation systems, forest restoration and reconstruction of roads at district and rural level,” Logos Press reports.
In January-April 2025, the share of CIS in the structure of external supplies of apples from Moldova amounted to only 54%, while in the same period of 2024 – 72%. For the whole of last year, the share of Moldovan apple exports to the CIS fell below 80% for the first time in modern history,” Logos Press reports.
