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Category: Agribusiness & Winemaking
During the last decade of April 2025, wholesale prices for last year’s potatoes in Moldova increased, on average, by 10% – up to 11 lei/kg, – reports Logos Press.
In the next three to five years, the area under legume cultivation is expected to increase to meet EU standards and regulations,” Logos Press reported.
In Moldova, the requirements for the quality of meat semi-finished products and products are changing. The innovations concern updating standards, increasing control over retail, and strengthening consumer protection,” Logos Press reports.
In the first quarter of 2025, the volume of imports of phosphate fertilizers (mainly ammophos and sulphoammophos) in RM exceeded 11 thousand tons, which is 26% more than in the same period of 2024 (almost 9 thousand tons), – reports Logos Press.
In the first quarter of this year Moldova exported more than 500 tons of honey from the 2024 honey harvest. More than half of the external supplies went to Romania and Italy,” Logos Press reported.
Starting from 2021, there is a hardly noticeable, but still obvious tendency to increase the insured areas in Moldova. In 2023, the best result for five years was recorded so far – 18.6 thousand hectares, which is 1.2% of the total agricultural area of Moldova. Last year, even these indicators fell slightly. At the same time, the share of premiums for agricultural risk insurance in 2024 amounted to only 4.5% (110 million lei) of the total size of the insurance market in Moldova (2.4 billion lei). This is evidenced by the research of the expert Iurie Rizhi, Chairman of the Agroxereale Association.
In the Netherlands, too, there are non-official ambassadors of Moldovan wines who promote them in this country with their own efforts. Two Moldovans, brothers Alexandru and Iulian Buza, import wines from Moldova and sell them in their restaurant in The Hague and in an online store. They see their mission as promoting the rich heritage of Moldovan winemaking and fine Moldovan wines.
Home wine, although gradually losing its position in the preferences of Moldovan consumers, still remains the leader. This is evidenced by the data of the study of Moldovan consumers’ behavior of alcoholic beverages, which was conducted by Xplane company at the request of NBV&V.
On the eve of Easter, the first Moldovan strawberries appeared in stores and wholesale and retail markets of Moldova, – reports Logos Press.
Recently, a rating blogger-politician (recognizable by his kushma) threw into the newscasts of RM and, ricochet, Romania a video about how Romanian-Moldovan border is crossed by cattle trucks with pigs – for slaughter. In this regard, numerous Moldovan commentators in social networks and chat rooms broke out with tirades in the spirit of “this is how they kill Moldovan pig breeding”. However, given the complex epizootic situation in the European Union in general and Romania in particular, it would be more appropriate to ask: “how did these (presumably Hungarian) pigs cross the whole of Romania and end up on the Moldovan border?
This adjustment of the course of programs of the International Fund for Agricultural Development IFAD was mentioned during a recent meeting of the management of the representative office of this organization in RM with the head of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Industry Ludmila Catlabuga, – reports Logos Press.
Last year the acacia bloomed at the turn of April and May. This year, given the almost summer weather of the last decade of April, there is no reason to think that it will be different. The problem is that the April frosts put in doubt the productive flowering of acacia in principle. This means that there may be no commercial batches of Moldova’s main varietal honey this year,” Logos Press reports.
In order to prevent fish and fish products obtained from illegal, undeclared and unregulated fishing from entering the national market, the Government has adopted a mechanism to verify the origin of these products in the Republic of Moldova,” Logos Press reported.
The Agency for Interventions and Payments in Agriculture (AIPA) approved the payment of subsidies for different projects totaling MDL 64.6 million between April 14 and 18,” Logos Press reported.
Employees of one of the largest pig-breeding companies in Moldova, which imports pigs for slaughter, say that on April 22, nine livestock trucks with animals were stopped at the Romanian-Moldovan border,” Logos Press reports.
Starting from 2021, there is a shy and unstable tendency to increase the insured areas in the Republic of Moldova. In 2023, the best result of the current five-year period was recorded so far – 18.6 thousand hectares, 1.2% of the total agricultural area of the country,” Logos Press reported.
Exports of Moldovan wine products in 2024 showed the best result in the last ten years, reaching $234.7 million, which is 22% more than in 2023. The lion’s share of revenues ($154 million) came from bottled wines and divines.
In the 2024 season, wineries in Moldova processed 179 thousand tons of grapes, which is 32% less than in the previous year. From this amount, 11.7 million dal of wine materials were produced (-34%). These data were presented by the National Bureau of Grapes and Wine (NBG&W) at the sectoral republican conference on the results of work for the last year.
The topic of subsidizing the agro-industrial sector this spring has been on the newscasts of RM with encouraging regularity. The Agency for Interventions and Payments in Agriculture AIPA reports on the amounts paid to farmers. The Parliament, at the Government’s request, amends the state budget in order to replenish the Fund for Agricultural and Rural Subsidies-2025. The bill on new principles of financing and monitoring of the agricultural sector is passed in the first reading. It seems that the work is boiling and everything is in order with subsidies for farmers, despite their background murmurings. But is it so?
This proposal was made by the chairman of the Forța Fermierilor Association, Alexandru Brinze, following a consultative meeting of the government leadership with agricultural producers’ organizations held on Thursday, Logos Press reported.
