News about Agribusiness
New outbreaks of African swine fever and rabies have been confirmed in the country, Logos Press reports.
The average share of the agricultural sector in EU countries reaches 1.2 percent of GDP in 2024, up 0.1 percentage points from 2009, according to Logos Press.
A Spanish winery from the Rioja Alavesa region is betting on precision agronomy, digital monitoring and microzoning of vineyards, according to Logos Press.
Information about the potential import of sunflower from Argentina to Moldova is supplemented with important details. Indeed, Trans Oil Group is the buyer of about 55,000 tons of this raw material, which arrived in the port of Constanta on two ships, Logos Press reported.
Bulgaria, long perceived as a supplier of inexpensive wine for the mass market, is getting louder and louder in the premium category in 2026, according to Logos Press.
Grants of up to 50 thousand euros are offered by international donors to groups of small and medium agricultural producers of field crop seeds in Moldova, Logos Press reports.
Supermarkets will be required to place information about the country of origin of food products directly on price tags next to the price, Logos Press reported.
According to the results of 2025, the share of Poland in the import of agro-food products to Ukraine amounted to 42% – it is slightly less than the total share of the nearest competitors (Germany and Turkey), reports Logos Press.
Uzbekistan intends to attract $744 million from international financial institutions for projects in agriculture and water management by the end of 2026, Logos Press reports.
The European wine industry is entering a phase of structural adjustment due to decreasing consumption on the one hand and increasing global competition on the other, reports Logos Press.
Ukraine and other post-Soviet countries are rapidly losing their former positions in the world walnut market due to internal problems of national walnut production and aggressive market policy of “new exporters”.
A ship has appeared on the list of ships delivering sunflower from Argentina to the Black Sea countries, with Turkey/Moldova as its destination, Logos Press reported.
U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order to mobilize provisions of the Defense Production Act to protect domestic production of elemental phosphorus and glyphosate-based herbicides, Logos Press reported.
In 2026, more than 71 million lei will be allocated for the development of the irrigation network in Moldova, including 62.7 million lei through grant support to farmers, Logos Press reported.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has pledged to allocate a record amount of nearly one trillion liras (about $23 billion) to support agriculture in 2026 to strengthen the country’s position among the world’s leaders in the agribusiness sector, Logos Press reported.
About 11,000 railcars with grain have piled up in the direction of Odessa ports. The management of Ukrzaliznytsya considers the situation “almost critical”, Logos Press reported.
The results of laboratory tests indicate that the cause of dermatosis outbreaks in cattle in the French region of Hexagon (six provinces) is grain crops from Ukraine, Logos Press reports.
Moldova Fruct Association estimates February stocks of marketable apples in fruit storages of Moldovan producers and traders at 100 thousand tons. Earlier this year, the estimate was 120 thousand tons, Logos Press reported.
In the past week, the head of MAIA’s Ministry of Agriculture and Food Ludmila Katlabuga announced the creation of “three to five agricultural chambers by the end of 2026”. These will be “an initiative from below – from regional farmer groups.” A meeting of ministry representatives with the first of such groups will take place in the very near future, Logos Press reports.
Moldova Fruct Association responded to the call for help from the Ukrainian Embassy in the Republic of Moldova. As part of the global campaign “Heat for Ukraine”, the organization provided seven electric generators as a gift to the population of the neighboring country left without stable access to electricity, Logos Press reported.
