27 oct 2014

Agricover, one of the largest agribusiness groups in Romania, is diversifying its operations by becoming a link between processors and milk, meat, fruit, vegetable farmers and more recently potato more

22 oct 2014

The appetite of Egyptians for the wheat or of Saudis for the barley harvested in Romania makes the country’s grain exports a thorn in the side of the European grain export leaders France and more

22 oct 2014

The building of Baneasa plant in northern Bucharest was demolished to make room for an office building and a store German retailer Lidl is set to erect on one quarter of the five-hectare plot. more

21 oct 2014

Five farmland owners in Botosani, Constanta, Olt, Alba and Satu Mare Counties are expecting to get EUR850,000 together for the sale of 25 to 52 hectare lots each or a total of 190 hectares. more

20 oct 2014

Romania’s agri-food exports have increased seven-fold in the past decade and saw a surplus in 2013 for the first time in twenty years, but the country’s position on the international market more

14 oct 2014

Romania's food industry sends 47 producers and processors to Paris to the most important food show in the world, SIAL (October 19-23), in a bid to boost exports. more

14 oct 2014

The blue tongue disease, which has affected almost 1,000 animals in Romania in the past eight months, puts at risk Romania’s livestock exports to the EU, a market where local companies have operated more

10 oct 2014

Romanian corn harvest is now worth EUR1 billion or 40% less than last year, due to the price drop to a five-year low, while the volume stayed the same. Corn will generate EUR1.6 billion revenue for more

9 oct 2014

Romania has the highest milk volume sold in markets, mostly bottled in PET containers, as well as the highest share of this segment in the total in all the 28 economies of the European Union. more

9 oct 2014

Farmers in Romania sowed 380,000 hectares of arable land with rapeseed, similar with last year’s area, the equivalent of a quarter of total areas dedicated to oleaginous seeds. more

7 oct 2014

Radu Timis, the entrepreneur who founded cold cuts producer Cris-Tim about two decades ago returned to the helm of his business after almost a year of having it run by former finance minister Gheorghe more

2 oct 2014

Non-bank financial institutions (NBFI) will start selling loans next year to farmers looking to get EU funds for their investments under a new EU agriculture funding program. The EU funds available in more

25 sep 2014

Businessman Marius Bucur, who owns Brise Group, the biggest Romanian-held agricultural trader, in August registered NBFI Brise Capital Group. more

22 sep 2014

The price of corn dropped 28% in two weeks (August 27 – September 10) to EUR115/ton on the Romanian market, the lowest in four seasons, in response to the bumper crop forecasts for Romania, the more

17 sep 2014

Agricultural raw material traders in Romania had in July the best month of the past decade, with wheat, barley and rapeseed exports of 1.3 million tons, up 12.3% from July 2013. more

10 sep 2014

Agricultural land plots of Banat, Romania, have come to be traded at prices of between EUR5,000 and EUR7,000/ha, after the market in the region got crowded amid cash pumped by foreign investors, but more

9 sep 2014

US trader Cargill, French cooperative group InVivo and traders Nidera (China) and Bunge (US) are the biggest exporters of Romanian wheat to Egypt by quantities delivered or contracted in the first more

9 sep 2014

Romanian entrepreneur Tiberiu Nagy, who exploits several hundred hectares of arable land in Arad through Grey Bull company, expects to harvest 18 tons/hectare of corn in several weeks’ time, four more

21 aug 2014

This year’s sunflower harvest in Romania, estimated at 2.1 million tons, is down 1.6% from the all-time high reached last year, while the 1.9 tons/hectare yield is within EU average. However, the more

20 aug 2014

Grain and oilseeds traders exported 2.6 million tons through the Constanta harbor in July, a record high for the month in eight years. more

18 aug 2014

Agricola Bacau, one of the four largest meat-processing businesses in Romania, is taking the first steps towards grain farming by working more than 2,000 hectares of farmland. more

6 aug 2014

Grain trader Nidera, held by China’s COFCO, will take over 51% in harbor operator United Shipping Agency, owned by Romanian entrepreneurs Catalin Trandafir and Mihai Felescu. more

29 iul 2014

Bunge (vegetable oil), Agrana (sugar), Expur (vegetable oil), Smithfield (meat) and Prutul (vegetable oil) are the top companies among the largest 50 food industry manufacturers in Romania, a group more

28 iul 2014

Investments in Romania’s arable land plots bring a 13% annual return, the highest among EU’s ten largest agricultural markets, according to a ZF survey. Each hectare of land generated EUR500 in more

25 iul 2014

The farmers who bet on corn in the spring will get EUR1,000 per hectare in the fall, at a yield of 8 tons/hectare and an average price of EUR130 per ton, according to a ZF analysis. more