3 dec 2013

Cattle exporters in Romania delivered about 3,000 trucks full of calves in the first nine months of 2013. One truck carried 60 calves weighing 200 kilos each, which translates into EUR95 million more

22 nov 2013

Chinese investors, who will attend an economic forum in Bucharest next Tuesday, alongside Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang, have announced their intention to buy 3 million pigs, 3 million sheep and more

15 nov 2013

Romania’s 4.1% economic growth in the third quarter has taken everybody by surprise, including analysts and businesspeople. more

15 nov 2013

Germany’s Agrarius, which operates a 3,200 hectare-farm in Timis County (western Romania), plans to double its farmland in Romania in the next three years, which is supposed to also double its more

14 nov 2013

Grain traders exported 736,000 tons of Romanian wheat in August alone, which means they shipped 9.6% of the current harvest abroad. more

11 nov 2013

Grain trader Alfred Toepfer, with sales of EUR424 million in Romania, has won an auction to supply 60,000 tons of Romanian wheat to Egypt for $280.73/ton, plus freight rates of $19.5/ton. more

5 nov 2013

U.S. Monsanto, the world’s largest genetically modified seeds producer, has completed a EUR27 million investment in its seed processing and conditioning plant in Sinesti, Ialomita County, 30 more

31 oct 2013

Romanian agriculture, a market that produces EUR16-18 billion per year, still has room for growth by using untilled land, as well as by improving productivity through investments in technology. These more

28 oct 2013

Grain trader Alfred Toepfer is building an 18,000-ton silo in Harsova, Constanta County (SE Romania) in a EUR2.5-3 million investment, according to ZF’s calculations. more

17 oct 2013

Romania, a country where agriculture generates 6% or 7% of the gross domestic product (GDP) every year, is the third largest watermelon producer in the European Union, being outranked by Spain and more

15 oct 2013

Klemens Tonnies, the owner of German football club Shalke 04 and of Tonnies Fleischwerk, one of the largest pork producers in Europe, is farming more than 4,000 hectares of rented land in Romania via more

15 oct 2013

The former Tnuva farm in Adunatii Copaceni, in Romanian southern county of Giurgiu, has reached a total 1,200 cows, but it’s still posting loss, owner Marin Boraciu said. more

11 oct 2013

Romanian farmers are planting more wheat now that the corn and sunflower have been rendered riskier investments after a EU ban on a certain type of pesticides. more

11 oct 2013

Vasile Lucut, shareholder and founder of Unicarm group, one of the largest players on the food market, has ongoing investments of EUR13 million in two photovoltaic parks with a total capacity of 9.5 more

8 oct 2013

The swine business of the Braila-based Marex Group will grow by 7.5% this year, owner Marin Moraru says. more

3 oct 2013

Stefan Poienaru, owner of major farming group Agrofam, has given up his online store selling meat and dairy products two years after launching it and now plans to focus exclusively on the production more

2 oct 2013

Romanian farmers are getting ready to plant the seeds for next year’s wheat crop and the rain in the last few days is a breath of fresh air to them since the best time for sowing is mid October. more

2 oct 2013

Producers of cigarettes, meat and sunflower oil together had total exports of around EUR460 million in the first half of this year, shows a ZF analysis based on the official statistics of the more

30 sep 2013

Former finance minister Gheorghe Pogea mber 2009 has taken over as general manager of Romanian cold cuts producer CrisTim since early August. more

26 sep 2013

Kosarom group, one of the largest meat producers and processors on the local market, expects to see exports of meat and meat products reach EUR8 million or 20% of its annual revenue, owner Neculai more

24 sep 2013

Romania’s largest hop farmer, Acatiu Mora, is growing hops on 185 hectares which cover three quarters of the country’s total hops production. more

23 sep 2013

Local farmers have harvested 1.9 million tons of sunflower seeds this fall, a record high amount, 60% higher than last season’s. more

18 sep 2013

The largest Romanian-held bakery group, Boromir Ramnicu-Valcea, is looking at Russia as a target market for its pastry products. more

12 sep 2013

Galli Gallo, the largest turkey farmer and turkey meat processor in Romania, went insolvent at its own request amid difficulties on the poultry market and weighed down by debts. more

11 sep 2013

Romania’s trade balance on agrifood products is still running a deficit despite the fact that the country’s agriculture sector was allotted funds of EUR10 billion from the European Union over the more