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.
Approximately 3-3.5 thousand tons of honey will be harvested in 2025 in Moldova, which is one and a half times lower than the median production of this product in the country during the last five years, – reports Logos Press.
More than 82,000 tons of rapeseed of the 2025 crop were exported by Moldova during July 1-24, Logos Press reported.
The district council of Causeni almost unanimously (two abstentions) voted in favor of creating a local emergency commission, which will have to document the poor state of agriculture and ask the Moldovan government to declare a local state of emergency, Logos Press reported, citing a release by the Forța Fermierilor association.
The 7th annual TehAgroFest-2025 Agricultural Machinery and Technology Fair will be held in the field of the Sanctum AG agrocenter near the municipality of Tochatin between July 31 and August 2, Logos Press reports.
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.
The new quotas for exports of Moldovan agro-food products agreed between Moldova and the European Union within the DCFTA exceed their actual supplies in previous years, but not by much, Logos Press reports.
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.
During 2025, ANSA will take 710 samples for pesticide residue measurements and another 30 samples for nitrate levels in crop sector products, Logos Press reported.
During the incomplete week in Odessa ports, the “demand price” for food wheat increased on average by another $7-8/t – to 223-231/t, Logos Press reports.
