We have already got used to the fact that the development of marketing of agricultural and food products in the Republic of Moldova at the system (sectoral/sectoral) level is supported by international donors with ideas and funding. In the last decade, USAID and the World Bank have been particularly active in this area. However, times change, and donors change with them.
The deficit of moisture in the soil under winter crops is about 70-80% in the south and 50-60% in the north of Moldova, according to experts from the Department of Farming Systems of the National Center of Science and Seed Production of the Republic of Moldova, – reports Logos Press.
The annual budget of the Fish Farming Support Fund will amount to 1.1 million lei and will be managed by the Agency for Interventions and Payments in Agriculture AIPA,” Logos Press reported.
Farmers and industry associations must analyze losses from April frosts within 30 days and submit specific calculations for each case to compensate for the damage. However, it will not be easy to do this,” Logos Press reported.
During the last decade of April 2025, wholesale prices for last year’s potatoes in Moldova increased, on average, by 10% – up to 11 lei/kg, – reports Logos Press.
In the first quarter of 2025, the volume of imports of phosphate fertilizers (mainly ammophos and sulphoammophos) in RM exceeded 11 thousand tons, which is 26% more than in the same period of 2024 (almost 9 thousand tons), – reports Logos Press.
In the first quarter of this year Moldova exported more than 500 tons of honey from the 2024 honey harvest. More than half of the external supplies went to Romania and Italy,” Logos Press reported.
Starting from 2021, there is a hardly noticeable, but still obvious tendency to increase the insured areas in Moldova. In 2023, the best result for five years was recorded so far – 18.6 thousand hectares, which is 1.2% of the total agricultural area of Moldova. Last year, even these indicators fell slightly. At the same time, the share of premiums for agricultural risk insurance in 2024 amounted to only 4.5% (110 million lei) of the total size of the insurance market in Moldova (2.4 billion lei). This is evidenced by the research of the expert Iurie Rizhi, Chairman of the Agroxereale Association.
On the eve of Easter, the first Moldovan strawberries appeared in stores and wholesale and retail markets of Moldova, – reports Logos Press.
Recently, a rating blogger-politician (recognizable by his kushma) threw into the newscasts of RM and, ricochet, Romania a video about how Romanian-Moldovan border is crossed by cattle trucks with pigs – for slaughter. In this regard, numerous Moldovan commentators in social networks and chat rooms broke out with tirades in the spirit of “this is how they kill Moldovan pig breeding”. However, given the complex epizootic situation in the European Union in general and Romania in particular, it would be more appropriate to ask: “how did these (presumably Hungarian) pigs cross the whole of Romania and end up on the Moldovan border?
This adjustment of the course of programs of the International Fund for Agricultural Development IFAD was mentioned during a recent meeting of the management of the representative office of this organization in RM with the head of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Industry Ludmila Catlabuga, – reports Logos Press.
Last year the acacia bloomed at the turn of April and May. This year, given the almost summer weather of the last decade of April, there is no reason to think that it will be different. The problem is that the April frosts put in doubt the productive flowering of acacia in principle. This means that there may be no commercial batches of Moldova’s main varietal honey this year,” Logos Press reports.
Employees of one of the largest pig-breeding companies in Moldova, which imports pigs for slaughter, say that on April 22, nine livestock trucks with animals were stopped at the Romanian-Moldovan border,” Logos Press reports.
Starting from 2021, there is a shy and unstable tendency to increase the insured areas in the Republic of Moldova. In 2023, the best result of the current five-year period was recorded so far – 18.6 thousand hectares, 1.2% of the total agricultural area of the country,” Logos Press reported.
The topic of subsidizing the agro-industrial sector this spring has been on the newscasts of RM with encouraging regularity. The Agency for Interventions and Payments in Agriculture AIPA reports on the amounts paid to farmers. The Parliament, at the Government’s request, amends the state budget in order to replenish the Fund for Agricultural and Rural Subsidies-2025. The bill on new principles of financing and monitoring of the agricultural sector is passed in the first reading. It seems that the work is boiling and everything is in order with subsidies for farmers, despite their background murmurings. But is it so?
This proposal was made by the chairman of the Forța Fermierilor Association, Alexandru Brinze, following a consultative meeting of the government leadership with agricultural producers’ organizations held on Thursday, Logos Press reported.
Long-term meteorological forecasts in times of global climate transformation are interesting, thankful, but not very reliable. Nevertheless, the world information space has already repeatedly announced that the coming summer will be among the three hottest in the history of observations. Whether it is so, or nature will have mercy – time will show. Nevertheless, in any case, in order to get economically significant harvest, it makes sense for Moldovan farmers to sow drought-resistant crops – “camels”. One of such crops is grain sorghum.
The employees of the Moldova Fruct Association have estimated the damage caused by the April frosts at more than 540 million lei. This was stated by the executive director of this organization, Iurie Fale, at a government meeting today,” Logos Press reported.
Guidelines for the use of drones in farmland sanitation have been developed by the MAIA Ministry of Agriculture and Food Industry. With an emphasis on flight safety, of course.
Tense epizootic situation with African swine fever in Moldova continues. Today, April 16, the Food Safety Agency ANSA reported the detection of two new cases of ASF in the period 03.04.25-15.04.25: in Radenii Vechi, Ungheni (domestic animals in households) and Lozova, Straseni (9 corpses of wild boars), – reports Logos Press.
