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Category: Agribusiness & Winemaking
The first week of March on the grain market of Moldova also brought increase of prices for wheat (plus 0,15-0,20 lei/kg) and corn (plus 0,10 lei/kg on average). The strengthening of prices corresponds to the dynamics of exchange prices for goods of this group in Europe, as well as in the European ports of the Black Sea countries. However, according to market operators, at the moment, the biggest influence on prices is the rise in the price of diesel fuel, i.e. transportation logistics, and a significant strengthening of the dollar against the euro and Moldovan leu.
International Women’s Day, traditionally celebrated by many countries of the world on March 8, this year is also a good occasion to remember that the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has declared 2026 as the International Year of Women Farmers.
This subsidy appears in the draft Strategic Program of Agrarian Policies (PSPA), which has been submitted to public hearings and is certain to be adopted.
More than 91% of all produce samples analyzed last year were in compliance. This is evidenced by the report of the National Food Safety Agency ANSA on monitoring of pesticide residues in food of plant origin.
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).
