Due to the seasonal rise in the price of dairy raw materials and high stocks of goods after active work in the warm period of the year, some dairy factories in Ukraine suspend or reduce butter production.
Just over 7 thousand tons of apples were exported from Moldova in October 2025, Logos Press reports.
On average, the price of agricultural products from its producers rose by 19.6% in January-September 2025 compared to the same period last year, – reports Logos Press.
Between 2021-25, prices of inputs (agrochemicals, seeds, fuel, etc.) rose by more than 41% on average in the U.S., Europe and many other parts of the world, while prices of basic agricultural products (wheat, corn, etc.) rose by only 25-35% on average, according to Logos Press.
About 200 thousand tons of apples have been processed by the beginning of November at five Moldovan factories producing apple concentrate, – reports Logos Press.
As of October 1, 2025, the number of pigs in farms of all categories amounted to 296.2 thousand – this is only 24.5% of the corresponding figure for the same date last year. At the same time, industrial farms of agricultural enterprises in early October this year contained 177.7 thousand (-31.4%), in households – 118.5 thousand (-7.6%) pigs, according to Logos Press.
The 22.6% increase in milk production in agricultural enterprises recorded by the National Bureau of Statistics for the three quarters of 2025 is due to state subsidies and (thanks to these additional payments) to the improvement of animal ration, – reports Logos Press.
One-fifth of the world’s population lives in areas where crop yields are falling due to human-induced land degradation, an invisible crisis that threatens the health of ecosystems around the world. This is the assessment of the State of Food and Agriculture 2025 (SOFA) report released today, Logos Press reports.
In Moldova, the harvest campaign of table grapes of late varieties is nearing completion. The task is likely to be completed as early as this week. The problem is that the 2025/26 marketing season, which was initially seen as one of the best in the five-year period, may end up being one of the worst. At the very least, for the reason that in some wine-growing regions between a third and a half of the table grape crop has gone to processing at modest prices, according to Logos Press.
At the beginning of this week, Alexandru Munteanu, candidate for prime minister, held a “round of consultations” with representatives of associations of producers of agro-food products. The dialog, according to the general opinion of the participants, was constructive. However, at that time, farmers and processors did not yet know about the choice of a candidate for the post of head of the MAIA Ministry of Agriculture and Food Industry.
The slow pace of the 2025 maize harvest campaign due to high soil moisture in the fields and grain in the cob increases the risk of deterioration in the quality of these products, especially when they are stored. This is the case in many countries in the Northern Black Sea region, but especially in Ukraine and Moldova.
The gross agricultural production in Moldovan farms of all categories increased by 10.2% (in comparable prices) in January-September 2025 compared to the same period of 2024, – reports Logos Press.
After the Moldovan media reported about long queues of trucks with perishable goods at the Moldovan-Romanian customs in Leuseni, the problem began to be solved. According to transport workers’ observations, the traffic of heavy trucks at this checkpoint began to gradually accelerate, Logos Press reported.
Moldova Fruct has delegated eight companies – members of its association – to represent Moldovan horticulture at the most important agricultural exhibition in Romania, INDAGRA FOOD 2025, taking place October 29 – November 2 in Bucharest, – reports Logos Press.
Hundreds of tons of carrots were shipped daily in October by large vegetable farms to the Romanian market at an average wholesale price of 1-2 Romanian lei/kg “per field”, depending on the variety and the size of the batch, Logos Press reported.
From the beginning of next year, the ANSA Food Safety Agency will be transferred from reporting directly to the government to the MAIA Ministry of Agriculture and Food Industry – as part of the reform of the central public administration, Logos Press reported.
Our Party faction MP Sergei Ivanov will be nominated for the post of chairman of the parliamentary standing committee on agriculture and food industry, Logos Press reports.
Toward the end of the walnut harvest, the supply of the commodity is not very high and prices are 10-20% higher than last year’s level at the same time of the season,” according to Logos Press.
The slow pace of the corn harvesting campaign due to high soil moisture in the fields and grain in the cob increases the risk of reducing the quality of this product, especially when it is put into storage, Logos Press reported.
Due to an increase in the October forecast for global cereal production and persistently low global demand for the commodity group, the GOI price index calculated by the IGC International Grains Council fell to its lowest level since April 2017, Logos Press reported.
