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Category: Agribusiness & Winemaking
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.
Moldova will expand the list of goods subject to sanitary and veterinary control at the border. This provides for draft amendments to the Rules for the movement across the state border of goods subject to control by the National Agency for Food Safety (ANSA).
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.
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.
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.
