Food and agricultural products account for more than 60% of Iran’s total supplies to Russia. The Russian market is significantly dependent on imports of Iranian fruit and vegetable products during certain periods of the marketing season.
The Council of Agri-food Associations CAPA “publicly condemns the continuation of the process of creating agricultural chambers, despite the fact that the law on their activity was challenged by a group of opposition deputies in the Constitutional Court.
This was announced by the head of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Industry (MAIA), Ludmila Catlabuga. According to her, the Agency for Interventions and Payments in Agriculture (AIPA) is currently processing 396 applications for post-investment subsidies worth over 400 million lei, as well as 170 applications for so-called “complimentary” subsidies (in this case, partial compensations of farmers’ insurance premiums).
Global markets of exchange-traded agricultural products have entered a phase of moderate growth. In this situation, hedge funds are gradually increasing their purchases of oilseeds and grains, anticipating a period of high price volatility.
Over the past three years, 177.7 million tons of cargo have already been transported through the Ukrainian sea corridor, of which 106.4 million tons is grain. Exports are carried out to 55 countries of the world.
The MAIA Ministry of Agriculture and Food expects that potential tax preferences will partially compensate for the increase in farmers’ costs due to higher prices for inputs and encourage them not to reduce the scale of the spring sowing campaign. According to the Ministry’s estimates, approximately 1.3-1.4 million hectares are to be sown with spring crops in Moldova this spring.
The Parliament of Kazakhstan ratified an agreement that will allow the country to supply clean energy directly to the European Union. The technical highlight of the project will be the unique laying of a deep-water current cable under the Caspian Sea.
Over the past year, Poland has detained five criminal bosses from the post-Soviet space: four citizens of Georgia and one citizen of Belarus. In such cases, there are problems with deportation: their countries of citizenship are not in a hurry to accept them.
Tax changes and military force-majeure in Iran left grain market of Kazakhstan in stagnation: deals are single, prices are corrected, and market participants are cautiously looking for new benchmarks.
The government approved two stricter regulations: new rules for the official control of residues of pharmacologically active substances in products of animal origin and requirements for the safety of fertilizers.
Moldagrotech Spring, the International specialized exhibition of agricultural machinery, equipment and technologies for the agrarian sector, will take place at the Moldexpo International Exhibition Center during March 11-14, 2026.
The March increase in prices for diesel fuel and nitrogen fertilizers may lead to an increase in production costs of agricultural producers by at least 20% during the period from spring field work (March-April) to the beginning of sowing winter crops for the future harvest (August-September).
Water inflow from the Carpathians to the Dniester reservoir decreased from 300 to 200 cubic meters per second. This occurs in a situation of rather high temperature conditions for the first half of March (up to plus 20 degrees Celsius during the day and above zero at night). The flow into the Moldovan part of the river (downstream of the Dniester HPP, Novodnestrovsk, Ukraine) is still the same – about 100 cubic meters per second.
China’s consumer price growth increased to the highest level in more than three years. Deflation in the industrial market slowed again after a rebound in energy markets and a boom in consumer spending during the Lunar New Year holiday.
The European Union is facing new challenges to its food safety system due to agri-food products imported from Mercosur countries. Recently, European Commissioners identified more than 80 tons of beef from Brazil containing growth hormones.
The blockage of the Gulf of Hormuz provoked a rise in the price of oil, gas and, along the chain, nitrogen fertilizers (by about 15-20% – depending on the geography of markets).
The volume of international transfers of major arms worldwide grew by 9.2% between 2016-2020 and 2021-2025. At the same time, European countries more than tripled their arms imports, becoming the largest recipient region.
Despite rising climate risks, production and logistics costs, as well as agricultural restructuring and changing consumer preferences, European horticulture is showing resilience and adaptability.
In February 2026, Moldova exported just over 11 thousand tons of apples. This is about 500 tons more than in the previous month. But 2 thousand tons less than in February of the previous year.
Obviously it’s not the country’s biggest problem, but for more than 200 hours some 90 million people in Iran have been living without internet.
