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Category: Agribusiness & Winemaking
Since March 1, 2025, the Agricultural Credit Program (FCA) has supported 203 Moldovan enterprises in the agricultural sector. At the same time, the amount of financing reached 201.78 million lei, Logos Press reported.
As of October 1, 2025, the number of pigs in farms of all categories amounted to 296.2 thousand – this is only 24.5% of the corresponding figure for the same date last year. At the same time, industrial farms of agricultural enterprises in early October this year contained 177.7 thousand (-31.4%), in households – 118.5 thousand (-7.6%) pigs, according to Logos Press.
The 22.6% increase in milk production in agricultural enterprises recorded by the National Bureau of Statistics for the three quarters of 2025 is due to state subsidies and (thanks to these additional payments) to the improvement of animal ration, – reports Logos Press.
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.
In a situation where earnings are declining, many people are choosing the obvious way to “make ends meet” – to spend less. Farmers who are conservative in their reactions to the slowdown in the global agricultural economy are cutting costs. Among other things, they prefer to buy new farm equipment, repair it properly and use the existing one with care.
The area of water bodies designated for fish farming should increase by 35% by 2027 and the area of water bodies rehabilitated for fish farming by 25% by 2028. Within three years, two fish hatcheries are to be re-established, which will make a significant contribution to meeting at least 30% of the needs of fish farms for certified genetic material for fish breeding, Logos Press reported.
Since last week, the average wholesale price of apples “at the gates of factories” in Moldova has decreased by another 7% – to 2.6 lei/kg, – reports Logos Press.
Due to the fact that Ukrainian onions are cheaper than Moldovan onions by 0.08 euros/kg in bulk, they turned out to be the preferred commodity on the vegetable market in Romania, Logos Press reported.
“Balance of activities” of the MAIA Ministry of Agriculture and Food Industry was presented to journalists today by the head of the Ministry Lyudmila Katlabuga. If it were not for the annual reduction of agricultural production and the share of gross agricultural product in GDP, the decline in agro-food exports, the galloping “food inflation”, decapitalization and the risk of bankruptcy of a large number of farmers, the results could have been even better, Logos Press reports.
