Moldova will export about 105-110 thousand tons of apples from last year’s harvest in the current marketing year (July 2024-June 2025). This is 20-23% lower than the export of Moldovan apple (137 thousand tons) in the previous season 2023-24,” Logos Press reports.
Approximately 420 thousand hectares of sunflower sowing area in Moldova this year, which is slightly more than last year, – reports Logos Press.
Heavy but not heavy rains, popularly called “shepherds’ rains”, by the end of May revived the hopes of Moldovan farmers for a decent berry harvest in 2025.
About 100 thousand hectares are occupied by winter rape crops for the harvest-2025 in Moldova, – reports Logos Press.
Only about 1 thousand hectares of agricultural land in the Republic of Moldova are occupied by vegetable pea crops for the 2025 harvest. At the turn of the last and this decade, the area under this crop in the country was three to four times larger,” Logos Press reports with reference to the Association of Fruit and Vegetable Processors Spetanța Con.
This opinion was expressed in a conversation with Logos Press correspondents by the chairman of the Association of producers and exporters of grapes from Moldova, Gheorghe Gaberi.
The first Moldovan potatoes of the new harvest, which are inferior to imported potatoes in terms of price-quality ratio, have appeared in the wholesale and retail markets of Chisinau, – reports Logos Press.
Smooth warming and moderate precipitation not longer than this week will be the best weather variant on the eve of mass harvesting of open ground strawberries. The season of this berry starts in the first week of June,” Logos Press reports.
Even in case of normal development of the weather situation in the future, the 2025 walnut harvest will be about 20-30% lower than last year’s,” Logos Press reports citing the opinion of the leadership of the Association of Nut Growers of Moldova (ANRM).
The rains with hail, which took place at the end of last week, damaged fruit plantations in the districts of Briceni, Edinec, Ocnița, Drochia and Soroca,” Logos Press reported.
Logos Press provided the Association of Pork Producers of Moldova (APCPM) and the Patronate of Meat Processing Industries (PÎIPC) with a platform for public discussion.
This week Moldovan agrarians once again celebrated a small and specialized, but cozy and tasty holiday – Honey Day. On this occasion, the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Industry MAIA issued a press release with a list of achievements of the industry, due to the abundant assistance of the government. Beekeepers responded by thanking the state for its support, but also by stating the numerous problems of this branch of animal husbandry.
The honey stocks of Moldovan beekeepers and trading companies are about three or four times the size of the average annual export of this product from Moldova,” Ion Maxim, executive director of the National Association of Beekeepers of Moldova (ANARM), told Logos Press.
At the end of last week, some horticultural farms in the south and center of Moldova started harvesting early varieties of sweet cherries. The first results are discouraging – the fruits are few, their quality (caliber, color, etc.) leaves much to be desired, – reports Logos Press.
From April 2024 to April 2025, only about 138 thousand tons of corn were exported from Moldova, which is 68% less than the previous season (434 thousand tons), – reports Logos Press with reference to the Association of Grain Exporters Agrocereale.
In the period January-April 2025, the total volume of Moldovan wheat exports amounted to only 215.5 thousand tons, which is 48% less than in the same period last year (415 thousand tons) – reports Logos Press with reference to the Association of Grain Exporters Agrocereale.
According to the preliminary data of the sugar market operators of RM, about 11 thousand hectares of sugar beet have been sown for the harvest-2025, – reports Logos Press.
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.
