26 apr 2012

Agricover, one of the top five grain traders on the domestic market, bought 24% in Danube Grain Services from two individual shareholders. The other owner of the company is Austria’s Voestalpine more

20 apr 2012

Romanian grain traders were eliminated in February and March from two tenders for wheat in Iraq worth a total of EUR20 million as a result of “faulty” deliveries made by Lebanese trader GT Group, more

19 apr 2012

Agricover, the only major trader of agricultural raw materials not backed by a multinational, is on the list of acquisitions of giants Cargill and Ameropa, market sources say. more

12 apr 2012

US agricultural seeds producer Monsanto, a giant with $11 billion (EUR8.4 billion) in turnover worldwide and one of the world’s most controversial companies, will invest $50 million (around EUR40 more

11 apr 2012

Agrofarm Holding, one of the top ten agricultural producers on the Romanian market, will record a EUR23 million turnover this year, down 8% on 2011. The turnover decline is due to the drought that did more

10 apr 2012

Romania’s grain production will amount to 19.3 million tons this year, down 1.9 million tons as a result of the decline of wheat and corn crops, according to the March estimates of Coceral, a more

4 apr 2012

United Grain Group, one of few grain traders built by a Romanian entrepreneur, plans to take the first step towards farming by acquiring 2,000 hectares of land and to expand throughout the entire more

2 apr 2012

FirstFarms, a company held by Danish investors, which operates a 7,500- hectare farm near Buzau (SE Romania), wants to merge with other Danish companies operating in the field of agriculture in more

22 mar 2012

The Halawani family, one of the lowest-profile groups of foreign investors in Romania, has decided to export pastry made in a factory in Oltenita, Calarasi County (southern Romania) to markets in the more

21 mar 2012

U.S. food conglomerate Bunge is in advanced talks with food products maker Prio Foods to take over the latter’s vegetable oil plant located in Lehliu Gara (southern Romania). more

19 mar 2012

The top ten players on the vegetable oil market can store 1.6 million tons in silos, i.e. over 80% of last year’s sunflower harvest, according to data from the Agriculture Ministry. more

19 mar 2012

Romania will become a net exporter of agri-food products by yearend for the first time in 22 years, now that the deficit of its trade in such products, which stood at EUR300 million in 2011, is seven more

15 mar 2012

Almost 7,000 individual farmers together exploit 700,000 hectares of land, i.e. 8% of the arable land in Romania, according to data of the Agriculture Ministry. The business done by these people is more

7 mar 2012

The National Statistics Institute announced a gross domestic product of 578 billion lei (EUR133 billion) in 2011, RON31 billion higher than the level used for building last year's budget. more

7 mar 2012

U.S. group Smithfield, the largest pig farmer in Romania, plans to export at least 10% of its farms’ local production. more

5 mar 2012

Alin Giurea, chairman and shareholder of milling and bakery company Pambac Bacau wants 5% of his company revenue to come from sales abroad, considering consumer spending on the domestic market is not more

2 mar 2012

Spanish group Campofrio, one of the largest cold cuts producer in Europe, last year sold two swine farms in Constanta county (SE Romania) for EUR2.5 million to Danish group DHC International, which more

28 feb 2012

Lebanese-held Maria Trading and Agro Chirnogi, Portuguese-held Prio Foods, Dutch company DN Agrar, Ingleby, the agricultural investment vehicle of Danish billionaire family Raunsing, German investment more

24 feb 2012

Foreign investors will be able to buy farmland without restrictions as of 2014, given that extending the restrictions would entail a modification of Romania’s EU accession treaty. more

20 feb 2012

Radu Timis, owner of CrisTim, one of the largest cold cuts producers, brings the Matache Macelaru brand back into the spotlight, through a EUR8 million investment in “Viennese carts,” as well as more

17 feb 2012

Comfert Bacau, a top-ten fertilizers and pesticides distributor, with turnover of almost EUR90 million in 2011, wants to start off on several production projects by the end of the year. more

14 feb 2012

Not one euro refunded by the EU from the structural and cohesion funds. This is what the first month of the year looked like, a year in which the Romanian authorities plan to attract EUR6 billion – more

10 feb 2012

Romanian companies exported a record EUR45 billion in 2011, 20% more than the previous year. Yet shipments abroad showed signs of a slowdown in the last quarter. more

8 feb 2012

Alfred C. Toepfer, the second leading grain trader on the local market, will increase its grain storage capacity in Giurgiu (southern Romania) to 66,000 tons, said market sources. more

1 feb 2012

Titan Machinery, the largest dealer of farming equipment in the US, which recently entered Romania through the acquisition of Agroexpert Timisoara, chose the local market as its first expansion thanks more