The world grain market has come out of the multi-month trend of wheat prices decrease. Consequently, farmers of the Black Sea countries, including Moldova, will face the question – to sell or not to sell wheat at current prices, or to “take a pause” in the hope for a significant jump in prices in the foreseeable future?
The National Agency for Food Safety (ANSA) is relaxing controls over shipments of packaged milk from Ukraine to Moldova. Only Ukrainian milk imported in bulk remains under continuous (consolidated) control.
About 55% of an anonymous online poll in the telegram channel of the “Ministry of Finance”, in which 1762 residents of Ukraine participated, are ready to consider the option of moving from the city to the countryside.
In February this year, the Agency for Interventions and Payments in Agriculture (AIPA) authorized for payment subsidy requests amounting to MDL 158.79 million.
The process of preparation of the project “Modernization of agricultural machinery and post-harvest equipment” (MAME 2) was discussed by Ludmila Katlabuga, Head of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Industry of MAIA, with the delegation of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA).
UPDATED. In the context of the international crisis caused by the military conflict in the Middle East, global energy markets are under direct pressure. Under the circumstances, fuel price increases become inevitable. These developments are immediately reflected in the agricultural sector of the Republic of Moldova, where diesel fuel is one of the main items of production costs on the eve of spring field work.
Meat market operators link the recovery of production in the Moldovan pork sector to the allocation of state compensation to pork enterprises for the fact of liquidation of pigs on the two largest pig farms in the country last year.
The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine is preparing a draft decree on introducing a licensing regime for imports of grapes, wine and alcohol from Moldova. This decision protects Ukraine’s economic interests and is a response to the Moldovan side’s restriction of exports of Ukrainian poultry meat, by-products and products containing poultry meat.
From March 2 of this year, Moldovan farmers can apply for participation in the next (fifth) grant competition within the AGGRI project. At this stage, along with livestock farmers, producers from certain segments of fruit production, as well as processors of raw materials, are invited to participate in the competition.
Export of honey from Ukraine in 2025 compared to the figure for 2024 (about 86 thousand tons) decreased by 41.4% – to 50.3 thousand tons. In financial terms, the export of this product from Ukraine in 2025 decreased by 24.9% to $125.4 mln.
In the short term, the growth of exchange quotations for wheat will continue. Grain prices are always tightly linked to oil prices and the US dollar exchange rate. Attacks on Iran have already been converted by rising oil prices and strengthening of the dollar. In this nexus, a rise in the prices of fast traded agri-food commodities is inevitable.
As a result of the war between Russia and Ukraine, more than 600,000 hectares of land owned by agri-food companies from the TOP-100 ranking are in territories controlled by the Russian army. In general, the land bank of companies from the TOP-100 is about 5.3 million hectares: this is a quarter of all sown areas of Ukraine, which are estimated at 23 million hectares. Ukrlandfarming, Agroton and HarvEast suffered the biggest losses.
Romania’s pork industry is experiencing the most acute crisis in the last decade. For five months, many Romanian pork producers have been operating outside the profitability zone. The country’s market is under intense pressure from heavy pork shipments from the European Union, which is shedding its reserves due to the threat of a widespread African swine fever epidemic in Spain. The short-term outlook for the industry is extremely unfavorable.
In the second half of February on the Moldovan walnut market, demand and prices for large quantities of walnuts in shell increased sharply. The result was a series of transactions for hundreds of tons of this product.
The global market for organic pesticides was estimated by the expert community at $5.3 billion by the end of 2025. By 2033, it is projected to increase to $13.1 billion, with an average annual growth rate of 9.7%.
The Government of Kazakhstan has approved an ambitious plan for the development of domestic livestock farming for 2026-30. It envisages a two-thirds to twofold increase in the performance of most branches of this sector.
The gross agrarian product (in comparable prices) for 2025 increased by 13.8% as compared to the corresponding indicator of the previous year, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) of the Republic of Moldova reports.
Countries in Central and South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa will take the brunt of food inflation this year, according to Logos Press.
The explosive rise in gold prices is not based on fundamental factors, says Ruchir Sharma. The chairman of the Rockefeller Foundation’s board of directors said that, in his opinion, investors are making up stories about the reasons for such a significant increase in the value of shares. He recommends investors to diversify their portfolios by investing in other commodity assets, Logos Press reports.
In 2025, the foreign trade turnover of agricultural and food products between Ukraine and the European Union decreased by 9% compared to the record figure of the previous year – to $15.7 billion, according to Logos Press.
