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Category: Agribusiness & Winemaking
The Environmental Agency has issued an order, according to which from March 28, fishing is prohibited in Moldova throughout the year in certain places – reports Logos Press.
The government has expanded the use of funds from the Livada Moldovei project to stimulate strategic investments in milk production.
The alleged slaughter due to African swine fever (ASF) of about 104,000 pigs at the two largest pig farms has created an existential conflict between pig farmers and meat producers in the Republic of Moldova. The patronage of the meat processing industry PIIPC asks the government for imports “not to impose customs duties on commodity item HS 0203 (pork fresh, chilled, frozen) in the period 2025-26”. It amounts to 20%+200 euro/t, but not more than 25% and 10%+200 euro/t, but not more than 15%). The Association of Pork Producers of the Republic of Moldova asks to leave everything as it is, “since there is no need to increase imports of pork, domestic producers are able to fill its potential deficit”.
Despite the fact that exports of Moldovan wine products show growth against the background of a general decline in foreign sales, this does not mean that everything is fine for its producers. There are many problems, and they can affect not only the good reporting indicators.
The situation on the world wine market is changing, which gives rise to new challenges for business. Oleg Volku, General Director of Imperial-Vin Group, spoke about the trends that have emerged in the crisis.
We can already talk about Moldovan wines being sold in Sweden, a country where the turnover of alcoholic beverages is regulated by strict rules of the state monopoly (Systembolaget). And our compatriot living in this country, former soccer player Sergiu Tanurkov, who created a company for importing wines, played a significant role in this. And three Swedes, who also liked Moldovan wines and became business partners, help him in this.
The most important exhibition in the wine world, ProWein` 2025, took place on March 16-18 in Düsseldorf (Germany). It was attended by about 4.2 thousand companies (a year ago – 5.4 thousand) from 65 countries, including 46 Moldovan producers of wine and divine at a common stand under the brand Wine of Moldova. The exposition was visited by about 42 thousand specialists from 128 countries (last year – 47 thousand people from 135 countries). This reflects the crisis in the world wine industry, as global wine consumption is on the decline.
On March 12-13, 2025, Chisinau hosted the Green and Just Transition Summit, which brought together more than 100 non-profit civil society organizations from the fields of environment, youth, culture, labor market, human rights organizations, and media. The event provided a platform for sharing experiences, discussing Moldova’s commitments to sustainable development, building partnerships and attracting sources of funding for environmental initiatives. The summit was organized by the New Democracy Foundation (Denmark).
The first commercial shipment of Moldovan apples was sent to India on March 19. The export shipment is carried out in the standard (non-test) mode. Prior to that, several trial shipments totaling 260 tons were sent to the Indian market in the enhanced control mode during 2023-24. Due to positive assessments of these deliveries, as LP reported (No. 7 of 28.02.25), on February 21, the Indian Ministry of Agriculture completed all necessary procedures and included Moldova in the list of countries approved for apple deliveries in the standard mode, in accordance with Indian phytosanitary norms.
A clear allusion to the Buridan donkey (who died of hunger, unable to choose the better of two haystacks) in one of the reports at the General Meeting of the Moldova Fruct Association very figuratively describes the difficult situation in Moldovan fruit growing.
A few weeks ago, the famous Invino enoteca was preparing to close. Logos Press wrote that Chisinau needed it both as a place of wine culture and as a place for foreign guests to get acquainted with the best Moldovan wines. Fortunately, the project was saved. The new owners of the business are Ludmila Druta and Ludmila Strong.
Winemakers presented their wines from the 2024 vintage at traditional regional tastings. There were three of them – in the IGP Valul lui Traian, IGP ?tefan Voda and IGP Codru zones. 48 enterprises participated in them.
