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Category: Agribusiness & Winemaking
At the end of April – beginning of May, one outbreak of African swine fever and three outbreaks of rabies were registered on the territory of the Republic of Moldova.
The National Bureau of Statistics reports that (wholesale) producer prices (large farms – 50 ha or more) for agricultural products in January-March 2026 compared to the same period in 2025 decreased by 4.7% overall. Specifically, prices for plant products decreased by an average of 9.1%, while prices for livestock products increased by an average of 4.4%.
The strategy of long-term storage of apples in expectation of a higher price at the end of the season did not justify itself. The dynamics of the fruit market in Europe developed in the opposite direction – stagnation or decrease in prices for dessert and industrial apples. As a result, growers in Ukraine, Poland and Moldova, at best, gained nothing, and at worst – suffered financial losses.
Six investment projects with a grant component in the livestock sector in Moldova were selected as a result of the AGGRI project’s fourth phase competition.
In April 2026, the Fund for Agricultural Credit (FCA) program provided financial resources to support 75 agricultural enterprises. A total of 483 micro and small enterprises in the agricultural sector were financed under this program between March 2025 and April 2026.
The National Museum of Moldovan History hosted the public presentation of the project “7000 Years with Wine” – an initiative that brings together winemakers, economists, historians, marketers and designers. The project is realized by enthusiasts who are convinced that Moldovan wine has a history that the whole world should hear.
The frosts of the first nights of May have significantly changed for the worse the estimates of damage to the fruit sector of Moldova from spring frosts. According to the first impression of fruit business operators, from a quarter to a third of the total area of orchards in the country was significantly affected.
The European Beekeepers’ Association (EBA) urges the European Commission to take emergency action by temporarily excluding Turkey, Ukraine and Russia from the list of third countries allowed to import bees. The reason is the detection of a dangerous pest – the mite Tropilaelaps spp. in these countries (as well as in Georgia and Belarus, with the prospect of rapid westward migration).
The former Minister of Labor and Social Protection, MP Marcel Spatar draws attention to the high level of informal employment in agriculture in Moldova, which deprives workers of guarantees and social protection. He calls day laborers one of the most vulnerable categories of workers.
In less than two weeks, from last Friday to this moment, onions on the Ukrainian market rose in price by an average of 40-45%. Ukrainian farmers were able to increase selling prices for onions for the first time since the beginning of February this year. On the whole, a cardinal increase in prices for this vegetable in Ukraine has not been recorded since mid-May 2025.
The gross agricultural product in the Republic of Moldova increased by 8.5% (in comparable prices) in the first quarter of 2026 compared to the same period last year. The increase was provided by the livestock sector – plus 8,8% against the indicator for the mentioned period of 2025. In January-March of this year, traditionally, the main share (98.3%) of agricultural production fell on products of animal origin.
The Moldovan government approved the Regulation on authorization, cultivation, monitoring, marketing and processing of industrial hemp. The document provides for the expansion of opportunities for the use of raw materials obtained from industrial hemp, which can increase the yield per hectare of agricultural land by about 40%. It will also provide private entrepreneurship with more opportunities for investment and agribusiness development.
Spring frosts in Ukraine resulted in the loss of about 50% of the crop of early stone trees. For this reason, apricots and cherries may rise in price by 30-50%.
The government decided to partially compensate farmers for the excise duty on diesel fuel used in the period from March 1 to May 31, 2026. For this purpose, 110 million lei will be allocated from the reserve fund.
Milk producers in Ukraine are in a difficult situation due to rising prices for energy and other inputs, as well as “war challenges” and new EU requirements.
In the south of the Republic of Moldova, where water and agro-technologies make the difference between an ordinary fruit harvest and competitive products, Dimitri Caramalac has built step by step a family business for the production of quality table grapes. In 2025, thanks to investments in certification according to the GLOBALG.A.P. international standard, Caramalac Agro SRL intends to actively enter the European Union market.
In Ukraine, the northernmost almond plantation in Eastern Europe was established at the Institute of Horticulture of the National Academy of Agrarian Sciences near Kiev.
Last year, Moldova’s beekeeping industry set a record and an anti-record at the same time: honey exports reached an unprecedentedly high level, while honey production reached its lowest level in at least a decade and a half. This year, according to a moderately optimistic forecast, the industry will do without records – both positive and negative.
Next Wednesday, April 29, the government will consider a draft decision on the allocation of 110 million lei from the Reserve Fund to compensate the excise tax on diesel fuel used by farmers during the spring field works this year.
At a wholesale price of 200 lei/kg, the first batch of Moldovan strawberries, grown in a heated industrial greenhouse in Soroca district, was sold at the Moldovan wholesale market in the middle of the week.
