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Category: Agribusiness & Winemaking
Alexandru Bădăreu, Executive Director of Forța Fermierilor Association, announced his resignation at the General Assembly of the organization. He will be replaced by Alexandru Slusari, who held this position during the previous mandate of Forța Fermierilor’s governing bodies.
Farmers from Soroca, Singerei and Floresti districts, who use water from the Soroca-Bălţi pipeline for irrigation purposes, are concerned about the uncertainty on the eve of the new agricultural season caused by the restructuring of the state enterprise Acva-Nord.
The laboratory analysis of the first sunflower batch, which arrived in Bulgaria from Argentina, showed that the maximum permissible residue levels of two pesticides in the products were exceeded.
According to the preliminary estimate of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Industry (MAIA), about 430-440 thousand hectares of winter crops have been sown for the harvest-2026 in Moldova, which is about 15-20% less than in the previous season. The situation with cereals is worse, in particular, sowing of winter wheat is unlikely to exceed 300 thousand ha (in 2024 – 351 thousand ha).
In the last quarter of last year, Moldova surpassed Ukraine and Uzbekistan in the list of the largest suppliers of apple concentrate to Poland, one of the largest apple producers in Europe.
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?
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.
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.
