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Category: Agribusiness & Winemaking
Up to 50% (but not more than 5 million lei “per hand”) of the cost of seeds used in reseeding the sugar beet plantations that died out this spring may be compensated to Moldovan sugar beet growers,” Logos Press reports.
The 46th World Congress of the International Organization of Vine and Wine (OIV), which is an intergovernmental structure, and the 23rd General Assembly of the OIV will be held in Chisinau from 16 to 20 June. It will be the first time that Moldova will host events of this level. 570 people from 46 countries have registered to participate in the Congress.
Sources close to the administration of this largest plant say it will resume operations in 2025 from processing new crop rapeseed, – Logos Press reported.
At least 50 thousand tons are estimated for the middle of June of this year, the commercial residues of sunflower harvest-2024 in Moldova, – reports Logos Press.
In case of unfavorable conjuncture of the main foreign markets, the export of fruits of the crop-2025 from Moldova in financial terms may halve – to $150-160 million, – reports Logos Press.
The area of crops treated with pesticides using drones will reach about 50,000 hectares this year,” Logos Press reported.
Due to administrative and bureaucratic barriers, the berry production sector in Moldova has an extremely limited list of pesticides authorized for use in berry plantations,” Logos Press reported, citing the Association Pomușoarele Moldovei.
The top 5 most demanded specialties in Moldovan agribusiness include managers, accountants, agronomists, veterinarians and mechanizers,” Logos Press reports.
This week (i.e., about eight to ten days earlier than the forecasted start), the raspberry selling season started in Moldova. Farms from the central districts of Moldova sell raspberries of the first harvest to supermarket chains in Chisinau at a wholesale price of 400 lei/kg,” Logos Press reports.
Only about 7 thousand hectares are planted with grain sorghum for the 2025 harvest in Moldova. Despite the efforts of the Moldovan authorities and international organizations aimed at mitigating the effects of climate change on the country’s agriculture, drought-resistant grain sorghum is not yet considered by Moldovan farmers as an alternative to maize,” Logos Press reports.
The wine.md company (it owns the wine library and tasting room of the same name), which has already organized two festivals – Wine Picnic and Vin de Autor – has created a new format of the wine festival – Wine Park. It was tested on May 30-31.
The area of grain corn sown for the harvest-2025 has shrunk to about 300 thousand hectares. Last year, this crop occupied 464 thousand hectares in the Republic of Moldova.
In January-April, Moldova exported $69.5 million worth of wine products, which is 3% less than in the same period last year. The decline could be explained by the general impact of the global economic crisis, but in this case it is not about our industry.
The sales season of Moldovan apples of last year’s harvest has come to a close. The stocks of export-quality goods are almost exhausted, and they will be barely enough to supply the domestic market of Moldova in June – the last month of the “apple” 2024-25 marketing year (MY). Logos Press correspondent tried, with the help of experts from two corporate associations of fruit business, to make a balance of the passing season and analyze the preconditions of the situation on the market of this fruit in the new MY.
More than 70 horticulture specialists from Ukraine and Romania, as well as representatives of 40 companies-suppliers of agro-technological goods and services from nine countries took part in the VII Annual Convocation of the Specialized Exhibition of Technologies and Innovations in Fruit Growing “Fruit Day”, organized by the Association Moldova Fruct, – reports Logos Press.
This summer, Moldovan dairy factories will keep purchase prices for raw milk “at the high level of the cold season”. This is relevant for large dairy farms, to which milk processing companies pay an average of 9 lei/kg (excluding VAT) for raw milk,” Logos Press reported.
The area of grain corn sown for the harvest-2025 has shrunk to about 300 thousand hectares. Last year, this crop occupied 464 thousand hectares in Moldova,” Logos Press reported.
About 5 hectares of vineyards of 12 Moldovan varieties will be planted by the Technical University of Moldova within a project worth 1.4 million euros, – reports Logos Press.
Moldova will export about 105-110 thousand tons of apples from last year’s harvest in the current marketing year (July 2024-June 2025). This is 20-23% lower than the export of Moldovan apple (137 thousand tons) in the previous season 2023-24,” Logos Press reports.
After more than ten years of insolvency procedure (since 2013), the Chisinau Court, by a decision of June 2, 2025, decided to remove the joint-stock company “Aroma” from this procedure and allowed it to continue its activity, – reports Logos Press.
