Assets of a stevedoring (cargo handling) company specialising in grain logistics have been put up for sale at the port of Reni. The name and value of the assets have not been disclosed. The company holds the status of a port operator and a resident of the Reni Special Economic Zone.
Shipping on the Sulina Canal, which connects Romania’s Black Sea ports with the ports of the Republic of Moldova and Ukraine on the Danube, has been suspended until at least the end of this working week.
At the end of last week, grape growers began the mass harvest of late-season table grapes of the main export variety – ‘Moldova’. Initial assessments of the situation are rather mixed.
The Ministry of Agriculture today announced the launch of the ‘Farmers’ Register’ information system, which provides a nationwide digital register of agricultural producers in the Republic of Moldova.
In the Republic of Moldova, monitoring of the rabies situation is ongoing. In 2026, 88 outbreaks of the disease were recorded among animals, according to the National Agency for Food Safety.
The Republic of Moldova’s production capacity in the field of seed production and the production of planting material, control and certification procedures, as well as import and export requirements for these goods, were analysed during a meeting between the Minister of Agriculture and Food Industry, Eugeniu Osmochescu, and members of the sectoral advisory council on seeds and planting material.
As of today, the water level in the Dniester Reservoir has fallen to 110.9 metres above sea level. Over the past two days, the outflow from the reservoir into the lower reaches of the Dniester has been 27–28, whilst the inflow has been 25–29 cubic metres per second.
Eugen Osmochescu, Minister of Agriculture and Food Industry, has proposed that an agricultural census be carried out no later than 2028.
Ukraine will secure additional grain storage capacity, the need for which has arisen due to problems with grain exports via the ports of Greater Odessa. One of the main solutions for the temporary storage of the harvest will be polymer sleeves, which the country plans to purchase using funds from the European Union and other international partners.
The total volume of grain transhipped by rail across the Ukrainian border had risen to 256.5 rail wagons per day by the end of the last full week of September. In August, the figure stood at 193 units. The top three countries in this process are Slovakia, Romania and Poland.
MAIA Minister Eugeniu Osmochescu acknowledged the possibility of a new round of price rises for basic foodstuffs. He made this statement in response to a journalist’s question about whether citizens might face price increases for bread, butter, flour or sugar.
At the end of September, according to the most optimistic estimates by experts from fruit-growing associations, only a few dozen hectares of vegetable (carrot) and remontant berry (strawberry and, to a lesser extent, raspberry) plantations are being irrigated in Moldova. Moreover, in most cases, water for these plantations is not drawn from the Dniester and Prut.
In its updated forecast for the production of major crops in the EU-27 and the UK for 2026, the Coceral agency has reduced the total harvest of cereals and oilseeds by 8 million tonnes compared with its summer estimate, bringing the figure down to 279 million tonnes (307.4 million tonnes at the same time in 2025).
European Union countries have agreed to unblock a €6.6 billion military aid programme for Ukraine, which had been frozen since spring 2023 due to the stance of the former Hungarian leadership under Viktor Orbán.
An agreement that would create the conditions for Ukrainian border and customs services to operate on Polish territory is being drawn up by Ukraine’s Ministry of Recovery, Infrastructure and Transport.
Wheat futures on the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) fell by 2.1 per cent on Friday, 25 September. The price of December wheat contracts fell to $6.925 per bushel. For the week as a whole, the contracts may lose around 2.4 per cent in value. It is clear that wheat prices have fallen to their lowest level this month.
At six permanent monitoring sites in the Orhei and Rezina districts, soil sampling is carried out by the National Agency for Land Reclamation (ANIF) with scientific support from the National Institute for Applied Research in Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine (IP INCAAMV).
Resource-conserving farming methods and climate change adaptation strategies, which are accessible to small-scale Moldovan farmers, were discussed today at a seminar in Chișinău as part of the National Programme for Enhancing Agricultural Sustainability for 2027–2030.
The challenges and opportunities facing the vegetable and potato production sector in Moldova were discussed at a meeting of the Advisory Council on the Vegetable Growing Sector at the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Industry.
The initiative by farmers in the Basarabeasca district will be supported by their colleagues in the Fălești district. According to preliminary information from the leadership of the ‘Forța Fermierilor’ association, which supports (but does not organise) these actions, farmers in northern Moldova will take to the streets with their machinery for a warning demonstration on Monday. It is not yet known whether the series of protests will continue in other regions.
