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Category: Agribusiness & Winemaking
After Moldova lost the right to use the name “Cahor” (in any spelling) in 2018, the production volume of this wine under the new name Pastoral rapidly decreased. On foreign markets, trade partners lost interest in the product under an unknown name. Accordingly, the main market for it became the home market.
The deficit of moisture in the soil under winter crops is about 70-80% in the south and 50-60% in the north of Moldova, according to experts from the Department of Farming Systems of the National Center of Science and Seed Production of the Republic of Moldova, – reports Logos Press.
The annual budget of the Fish Farming Support Fund will amount to 1.1 million lei and will be managed by the Agency for Interventions and Payments in Agriculture AIPA,” Logos Press reported.
Farmers and industry associations must analyze losses from April frosts within 30 days and submit specific calculations for each case to compensate for the damage. However, it will not be easy to do this,” Logos Press reported.
In January-March 2025, the total volume of agricultural production in farms of all categories decreased by 9.5% (in comparable prices). The main reason is the decrease in livestock production by 10%,” Logos Press reports.
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.
