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In 2025, residential real estate investments in Moldova remain a priority despite contradictory market signals. The population still considers these investments as a long-term capital protection tool, although the market is moving towards transformation due to the limited ability of households to finance purchases.

As a result of the war between Russia and Ukraine, more than 600,000 hectares of land owned by agri-food companies from the TOP-100 ranking are in territories controlled by the Russian army. In general, the land bank of companies from the TOP-100 is about 5.3 million hectares: this is a quarter of all sown areas of Ukraine, which are estimated at 23 million hectares. Ukrlandfarming, Agroton and HarvEast suffered the biggest losses.

According to the forecast of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the increase in food prices in Moldova in 2026 will amount to 4.9%, which puts our country on the 43rd place in the world on this indicator among 160 states.

At least 20 people were killed when a military plane carrying banknotes crashed in the Bolivian city of El Alto on Friday.

In January this year, the revenues administered by the Customs Service were registered at the level of 2,637.7 million lei. Last year, during the analyzed period, this indicator amounted to 2,736.2 million lei. According to the data from the Finance Ministry’s report on the state budget execution as of January 31, 2026, the difference reached 98.5 million lei.

Romania’s pork industry is experiencing the most acute crisis in the last decade. For five months, many Romanian pork producers have been operating outside the profitability zone. The country’s market is under intense pressure from heavy pork shipments from the European Union, which is shedding its reserves due to the threat of a widespread African swine fever epidemic in Spain. The short-term outlook for the industry is extremely unfavorable.

One month after the launch of the platform with the results of mass assessment and revaluation of real estate, the Agency of Geodesy, Cartography and Cadastre (AGCC) and the State Agency of Real Estate Cadastre presented the first results of the process of familiarizing citizens with them. They concern the classification of complaints, the way of their submission, the timeframes for consideration and other stages of the procedure.

In the sky half an hour to an hour after sunset on February 28, it will be possible to observe a rare astronomical phenomenon – a parade of six planets.

In the second half of February on the Moldovan walnut market, demand and prices for large quantities of walnuts in shell increased sharply. The result was a series of transactions for hundreds of tons of this product.

The crime rate continues to decrease. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, 23.1 thousand crimes were registered on the territory of Moldova in 2025, which is 6% less compared to 2024 and 14.9% less compared to 2021.

The global market for organic pesticides was estimated by the expert community at $5.3 billion by the end of 2025. By 2033, it is projected to increase to $13.1 billion, with an average annual growth rate of 9.7%.

The gross agrarian product (in comparable prices) for 2025 increased by 13.8% as compared to the corresponding indicator of the previous year, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) of the Republic of Moldova reports.