ANARM

At the end of January 2026, the National Association of Beekeepers of the Republic of Moldova (ANARM) repeatedly requested government assistance with money or sugar (10 kilograms per bee family), as well as tax incentives because of the “unprecedented crisis that befell the industry last year,” Logos Press reported.

Since the beginning of fall, beekeepers have been forced to invest heavily in supplemental feeding for bee families weakened by drought and significant honey shortages, Logos Press reported.

Approximately 3-3.5 thousand tons of honey will be harvested in 2025 in Moldova, which is one and a half times lower than the median production of this product in the country during the last five years, – reports Logos Press.

Wholesale prices for fresh acacia honey have not been formed yet, and in retail this product is offered only by some farmers-beekeepers at weekend fairs, not cheaper than 190-200 lei/kg, – reports Logos Press.

This week Moldovan agrarians once again celebrated a small and specialized, but cozy and tasty holiday – Honey Day. On this occasion, the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Industry MAIA issued a press release with a list of achievements of the industry, due to the abundant assistance of the government. Beekeepers responded by thanking the state for its support, but also by stating the numerous problems of this branch of animal husbandry.

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.

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.