News about Economy of Moldova

Last week, the Agency for Interventions and Payments in Agriculture (AIPA) authorized a total of 24.4 million lei in subsidies to be paid to farmers. While most of the previous tranche of payments from the National Fund for Agriculture and Rural Development of RM was mainly aimed at paying off the arrears of post-investment subsidies for 2024, the current one is subsidies in advance and for insurance.

Banks will have to be more careful with the rights of borrowers and give the right to early repayment of the loan, including the sale of pledged real estate and other “hard” currency.

The Council of the Association “Forța Fermierilor” approved Alexandru Slusar as the executive director of the organization.

On Friday, the governing Food Safety Agency (ANSA) issued an order authorizing the resumption of imports of frozen and chilled poultry meat from a poultry farm (Cherkassy, Ukraine) owned by Myronivsky Hliboproduct (MHP).

According to the National Bureau of Statistics, export growth, which began in July 2025, continued in January 2026.

Agricultural exports in 2025 have recovered after a three-year decline. However, its structure points to a serious problem: while supplies of raw materials are increasing, exports of processed products are declining.

A creditor will be obliged to resort to it before filing a statement of claim with a court. The innovation concerns a whole range of judicial disputes – civil, family and labor disputes, as well as criminal and administrative cases. But it will not apply to disputes in the tax, customs and administrative spheres.

Moldovan citizens who have legally worked in Canada and in Moldova will be able to receive pensions of both states for age, disability due to general diseases, as a result of accidents at work or occupational diseases, as well as for loss of breadwinner.

The renewal of the administrative board, as well as the problems of importing bee families and the quality of exported products were the focus of the general meeting of the National Association of Beekeepers of Moldova (ANARM) on March 13.

The Parliamentary Commission on Economy, Budget and Finance has expressed its support for retaining the rules on cash payments. The commissioners, who represent the parliamentary majority, argue that restrictions on cash payments, including a €10,000 limit for transactions between individuals, which comes into effect from July 2027, are important to combat the shadow economy.

Income tax revenues from individuals who rent out real estate amounted to 18.5 million lei in the first two months of this year. Compared to the same period of 2025, they increased by 21.1%.

New vineyard management regulations have come into force. The uprooting and decommissioning of vine plantations is allowed throughout the year. Until now, there were time limits, which have been abolished.

Europe is the region of the world with the highest average age of the population.

The Council of Agri-food Associations CAPA “publicly condemns the continuation of the process of creating agricultural chambers, despite the fact that the law on their activity was challenged by a group of opposition deputies in the Constitutional Court.

This was announced by the head of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Industry (MAIA), Ludmila Catlabuga. According to her, the Agency for Interventions and Payments in Agriculture (AIPA) is currently processing 396 applications for post-investment subsidies worth over 400 million lei, as well as 170 applications for so-called “complimentary” subsidies (in this case, partial compensations of farmers’ insurance premiums).

More and more Romanian drivers are crossing the Prut River to refuel in Moldova.

All data on insurance medicine will be concentrated in a single information system. The Government will introduce amendments to the concept and regulations for the use of the Integrated Information System “Compulsory Medical Insurance” (IIS OMI). The amendments will make it possible to unite a number of disparate information systems into a single resource. It is expected that this will improve data exchange between participants in the system, which today provides fragmented and not always complete information.

The Moldovan government has voted in favor of approving bills on the denunciation of the Agreement on the Establishment of the Commonwealth of Independent States.

The system of returnable packaging (SDA), which is being formed for the first time in Moldova, is estimated at 20 million euros. This was announced to Logos Press by Grigori Stratulat, State Secretary of the Ministry of Environment.

The MAIA Ministry of Agriculture and Food expects that potential tax preferences will partially compensate for the increase in farmers’ costs due to higher prices for inputs and encourage them not to reduce the scale of the spring sowing campaign. According to the Ministry’s estimates, approximately 1.3-1.4 million hectares are to be sown with spring crops in Moldova this spring.