Low water levels in Moldova’s rivers during the summer and rising tariffs for international sea transport of agricultural products add to the existing risks at the start of the 2025-26 marketing season, according to Logos Press.
At the end of June 2025, the price of food wheat and barley on Moldova’s grain market is stagnating at a relatively low level,” Loogos Press reports.
Judicial authorities in Romania have upheld the order of the country’s Ministry of Agriculture to suspend the National Anti-Hail System – Logos Press reports with reference to epochtimes-romania.com.
In Moldova, harvesting of medium-late cherry varieties – Lapins, Big Star, Kordia, Large-fruited cherries has started. At the same time, more or less systematic export of these fruits started. The volumes are not large yet – within a hundred tons. At the same time, a part of cherries, conditionally – “export quality”, for a number of reasons is still settled on the domestic market.
Rapeseed is the first money earned by farmers in the season. A lot depends on this earnings: the ability to pay off debts in time, finance the harvesting of second-group crops, purchase resources for sowing winter crops. And the main thing is that farmers’ mood and attitude for the nearest future depends on the first money. What will it be like in Moldova?
At present, sunflower and, partly, rapeseed act as “key revenue drivers” for RM farmers, but experts recommend paying more attention to “niche” crops,” Logos Press reports.
The General Director of the National Agency for Food Safety ANSA Radu Mustiatica urged Moldovan consumers to be vigilant about safe food consumption during the summer period, when the risks are the highest, – reports Logos Press.
The season of harvesting raspberries for freezing has started in Moldova. At present, the supply of this raw material is very small, it is purchased by only one “berry cluster” (in the village of Pokrovka, Donduseni district) for export to Poland. “The ‘demand price’ is about 40-45 lei/kg, reports Logos Press.
From the new academic year, the Technical University will start training students in two new specialties: “Hydromelioration” and “Smart Agriculture”,” reports Logos Press.
Parliament approved in the second reading amendments to Law No. 337/2022 on the VAT Refund Program for Agricultural Producers, which provide for the extension of its application until December 2026, – reports Logos Press.
The government today, June 24, decided to extend the licensing regime for imports of wheat, corn and sunflower until December 31, 2025, Logos Press reported, citing a release from the MAIA Ministry of Agriculture and Food Industry.
Last week, August rapeseed futures on the French futures market MATIF (part of the international European exchange Euronext) rose by 1.7% and jumped over the symbolic 500 euros/t mark,” Logos Press reported.
The quality of medium-late varieties of cherries is above average in the masses, due to which exports have intensified, which contributes to the stagnation of prices for this commodity at a relatively high level, – reports Logos Press.
At the end of May, cereals and oilseed crops retained the status of absolute leader in exports both in physical volume (92.91%) and in value terms (80.90%) of the total volume of supplies from the Republic of Moldova abroad,” Logos Press reports.
By the votes of the ruling party’s parliamentary faction, the new law on subsidies in Moldovan agriculture was approved in its final reading. The law contains many new things – from its name to its principles. The law is very ambiguous – at the draft stage it gathered both a lot of criticism and flattering reviews. But the most important thing is that the law will come into force from the new year.
There are reasons to hope that this year Moldova will have a very good harvest of oilseed crops. The area under crops has noticeably increased: about 100 thousand hectares have been allocated for rape, which is many times more than last year, sunflower – more than 420 thousand hectares. At the moment, agronomists assess the condition of crops as “good and very good”.
This year’s crop of table grapes is expected to be of high quality, aided by a rare combination of weather conditions for pollination,” according to Logos Press.
Moldova exported about 16.2 thousand tons of sunflower in May, which is significantly lower than the figure for April (45.2 thousand tons) and March (69.6 thousand tons) of 2025,” Logos Press reported.
More than 8 billion lei may be freed up to finance agriculture by applying the government factoring mechanism,” Logos Press reported.
In May 2025, the volume of sunflower oil imports to Moldova slightly exceeded 2 thousand tons (worth 54.9 million lei), while exports were 2.6 times lower than imports – 0.79 thousand tons (worth 17.3 million lei), – reports Logos Press.
