Information about the potential import of sunflower from Argentina to Moldova is supplemented with important details. Indeed, Trans Oil Group is the buyer of about 55,000 tons of this raw material, which arrived in the port of Constanta on two ships, Logos Press reported.
Grants of up to 50 thousand euros are offered by international donors to groups of small and medium agricultural producers of field crop seeds in Moldova, Logos Press reports.
According to the results of 2025, the share of Poland in the import of agro-food products to Ukraine amounted to 42% – it is slightly less than the total share of the nearest competitors (Germany and Turkey), reports Logos Press.
Uzbekistan intends to attract $744 million from international financial institutions for projects in agriculture and water management by the end of 2026, Logos Press reports.
Ukraine and other post-Soviet countries are rapidly losing their former positions in the world walnut market due to internal problems of national walnut production and aggressive market policy of “new exporters”.
A ship has appeared on the list of ships delivering sunflower from Argentina to the Black Sea countries, with Turkey/Moldova as its destination, Logos Press reported.
U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order to mobilize provisions of the Defense Production Act to protect domestic production of elemental phosphorus and glyphosate-based herbicides, Logos Press reported.
January 2026 was a record year for imported electricity supplies to Ukraine – 894.5 thousand MWh, according to Logos Press.
In 2026, more than 71 million lei will be allocated for the development of the irrigation network in Moldova, including 62.7 million lei through grant support to farmers, Logos Press reported.
Kazakhstan has entered the top 50 largest economies in the world in terms of gross domestic product (GDP) in 2026, reports Logos Press.
About 11,000 railcars with grain have piled up in the direction of Odessa ports. The management of Ukrzaliznytsya considers the situation “almost critical”, Logos Press reported.
The results of laboratory tests indicate that the cause of dermatosis outbreaks in cattle in the French region of Hexagon (six provinces) is grain crops from Ukraine, Logos Press reports.
Moldova Fruct Association estimates February stocks of marketable apples in fruit storages of Moldovan producers and traders at 100 thousand tons. Earlier this year, the estimate was 120 thousand tons, Logos Press reported.
In the past week, the head of MAIA’s Ministry of Agriculture and Food Ludmila Katlabuga announced the creation of “three to five agricultural chambers by the end of 2026”. These will be “an initiative from below – from regional farmer groups.” A meeting of ministry representatives with the first of such groups will take place in the very near future, Logos Press reports.
Moldova Fruct Association responded to the call for help from the Ukrainian Embassy in the Republic of Moldova. As part of the global campaign “Heat for Ukraine”, the organization provided seven electric generators as a gift to the population of the neighboring country left without stable access to electricity, Logos Press reported.
In February, summer and fall wheat futures prices are higher than current quotations on exchanges in Europe and the United States, which is atypical in terms of seasonal dynamics of the grain market, Logos Press reports.
From March 2 to 29, the Agency for Agriculture Investment and Payments will accept applications from farmers for the fifth phase of the AGGRI ((Agriculture Governance, Growth and Resilience Investment) “grant competition,” Logos Press reports.
The situation with the harvesting of agricultural products of last year’s crop still remaining in the field is worsening. Given the weather forecast for the last decade of February, the 2025 harvesting campaign has a chance of ending in the spring of 2026, according to Logos Press.
Nearly two and a half tons of cookies containing contaminated palm oil did not reach store shelves as a result of the intervention of inspectors from the National Food Safety Agency ANSA, Logos Press reports.
The other day the ANSA Food Safety Agency commented on the Moldovan government’s long-standing decision (No. 158/2019) on the content and names of dairy products. At least some operators on the Moldovan dairy products market took this comment as a signal from the inspecting agency about its zero tolerance to the desire of producers and traders to make money on attempts to mislead consumers.
