10.08.2014

A lower sales tax on bread constitutes a basis for a lower tax on other products, such as organically farmed products, meat, fruit and vegetables and tax evasion in agriculture is sometimes "a means more

10.08.2014

Romania ranks last but two in Europe by average farm size, with 3.4 hectares, while the potential of Romanian agriculture can be improved by farmland pooling, agriculture minister Daniel Constantin more

09.26.2014

Romania places first in the European Union in terms of areas cultivated with corn, but is far from holding the top spot when it comes to the yield per hectare, Agriculture Minister Daniel Constantin more

09.26.2014

Romania's Agriculture ministry will continue to subsidize the rise in diesel fuel excise duties in 2015 and the measure is to be approved by government decision in the following weeks. more

09.04.2014

The Romanian Government on Thursday approved a decision raising the maximum ceiling allocated for additional payments for ecological farming in 2014 to EUR7 million from the current EUR3 million. more

08.22.2014

Romania may have caught up with the West in terms of inflation and interest rates, but has not made any progress with one of the most important indicator of a country’s development: percentage of more

07.29.2014

The number of high school graduates who enroll at the faculties of the University of Agronomic Sciences in Bucharest has constantly increased in the past three years so all undergraduate places at the more

07.25.2014

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

06.23.2014

Demand for funding from Romanian farmers has gone through the roof, says Robert Rekkers, the general manager of Agricover IFN, the finance unit of the agribusiness group by the same name. more

06.09.2014

Alfred Toepfer (US), Cargill (US), Ameropa (Switzerland), Glencore (Switzerland), CHS (US), Bunge (US), Nidera (China) and three more companies are calling the shots on the Romanian grain trading more

05.28.2014

Agriculture has gained importance in bankers’ eyes since the crisis onset, advancing from 2.2% in the total portfolio of the banking sector in 2008, to 3.6% in 2012, but the level stayed unchanged more

04.16.2014

Agriculture has reached its extensive growth ceiling and will direct the EUR8 billion in EU funds made available to it in 2014-2020 to intensive production and processing systems in the next seven more

04.15.2014

The level of non-performing loans (NPLs) in the agricultural sector is very low, Radu Gratian Ghetea, head of Romanian state-run lender CEC Bank said Tuesday. more

04.15.2014

Romania's food industry exports posted a EUR35 million surplus in January and the country's main export product was corn, which overtook wheat exports, Agriculture Minister Daniel Constantin said more

04.07.2014

Romanian Agriculture Minister Daniel Constantin stated Monday that the ministry will draw EU funds worth EUR2.9 billion in 2014, adding that agriculture flourished and has great potential in the more

04.03.2014

Airports and golf courses will be blacklisted as inactive farmers and will no longer be eligible for farming subsidies, said Dorel Benu, general manager of the country's paying agency for agriculture more

03.31.2014

Cereal output rose 63.9% in 2013 in Romania which, although ranked among the largest corn and wheat producers in the European Union, places near bottom in terms of yields per hectare, the country’s more

03.23.2014

Romania’s new Rural Development Program for 2014-2020 stipulates that funds for the country’s irrigation infrastructure will increase 2.5 times, while financing for family farms will rise more more

03.18.2014

SIF Banat-Crisana (SIF1.RO), SIF Moldova (SIF2.RO) and SIF Muntenia (SIF4.RO) plan to continue selling banking stock in 2014 and shift investments to less traditional activity fields for the regional more

03.11.2014

Confind company of Campina (Prahova), a producer of oil industry equipment and installations controlled by businessman Ioan Simion, acquired 240 hectares of farmland and wants to continue purchases to more

02.25.2014

Italian investors control farms operating lands with an overall area of around 220,000 hectares in Romania, namely a quarter of the total area held by foreign players in the agricultural field. more

02.17.2014

Agriculture generated almost half of Romania’s surprising economic growth of last year, 3.5%, after the gross value added in the farming sector increased by 23% year-on-year, according to Eurostat. more

01.23.2014

Danish company FirstFarms will cultivate 1,600 hectare of farmland it owns in western Romania and wants to significantly expand its operations in the area, the company said in a statement Thursday. more

01.15.2014

Romania ranks second in the European Union in terms of corn production and leads by sunseed output, but the yields are among the lowest in the region because of the uncertified seeds that farmers use more

01.10.2014

The farming sector contributed EUR18.5 billion to Romania’s economy last year, an all-time high and 28% more than in 2012, according to the latest Eurostat data. more