harvest

By early December, about 40% of sugar beet remained in the ground in the raw material zone of Sudzucker Moldova and up to 60-70% in the zone of Moldova Zahăr, Logos Press reported.

Toward the end of the walnut harvest, the supply of the commodity is not very high and prices are 10-20% higher than last year’s level at the same time of the season,” according to Logos Press.

The two-week break in the harvesting campaign due to the abnormally long period of October precipitation has changed a lot in the apple segment of Moldovan fruit growing. Moldova Fruct management has not yet changed its summer forecast for the 2025 apple crop, but fruit market operators believe that by November the adjustment will certainly take place.

After the summer drought and prolonged October precipitation, the forecast of sunflower harvest-2025 in Ukraine professional oilseed market participants reduced to 11.4 million tons – this is the lowest estimate of production of this crop since 2016, – reports Logos Press.

Sunflower yield losses due to fall precipitation and the delayed harvesting period by at least 10 days will amount to at least 10-15%, Logos Press reports.

Last week on the Moldovan fruit and vegetable market, the level of wholesale prices for onions dropped by 20%, – reports Logos Press.

The current production and commercial season may become one of the most eventful for the sugar beet complex in Moldova. It started with almost zero stocks of marketable sugar and attempts to expand the area under sugar beet. It continued with the most large-scale death of crops from late spring frosts and no less large-scale reseeding. And it will probably end with a surprisingly good sugar beet harvest and a solid volume of sugar produced. But its prices are unlikely to fully satisfy both sugar producers and sugar consumers.

The first September frosts, which are predicted already in the next few days, will increase the risks of losses in the quantity and quality of some crops, Logos Press reported.

Since last week, the Moldovan plum market has reached the stage of seasonal decline in export sales, which will tentatively last until the beginning of the last decade of September, – reports Logos Press.

In 2025, the sunflower harvest in Moldova will be higher than last year. Its price, judging by the market dynamics in the last months of the last marketing season, also demonstrates, albeit timid, but still, the potential for growth. Will these two factors be sufficient for Moldova to keep the ambiguous status of “pure and large” exporter of this oilseed raw material in the new marketing season? Or are there possible variants?

In Moldova, the rape harvest will be completed next week. By the end of the harvesting campaign, preliminary estimates of the production of this crop have increased, while the domestic and foreign trade context has changed significantly. Is it for the better? It is an open question.

In the range of 8.3-8.4 lei/kg, the average price of last year’s sunflower stabilized in the last decade of July,” Logos Press reported.