10.12.2012

Romania’s Agriculture Ministry will borrow 1.4 billion lei (EUR306 million) from the Treasury for direct area payments to farmers, according to a draft decision drawn up by the ministry. more

10.09.2012

The Romanian Government will approve Wednesday a decision regulating the support per animal in the cattle sector, the cattle aid and the aid per area, according to the Agriculture Minister Daniel more

10.09.2012

Romania’s Chamber of Deputies, assembled in plenary Tuesday, rejected the motion on agriculture put forth by opposition democrat liberals with 148 to 73 votes and 18 abstentions. more

10.02.2012

Romanian opposition democrat liberal lawmakers on Tuesday submitted a simple motion in the Chamber of Deputies targeting the field of agriculture and calling for the resignation of Agriculture more

09.24.2012

The Romanian opposition Democratic Liberal Party will submit a simple motion on agriculture in the Chamber of Deputies next Tuesday, democrat liberal Cezar Preda said Monday. more

09.17.2012

Agricola Bacau, one of the largest companies in the Romanian poultry business, is pondering whether the targets set early in the year are still attainable after the drought sent prices of main farming more

09.13.2012

Chambers of agriculture will play a significant part in developing Romanian agriculture and might offset any negative effects triggered by Government reshuffle or frequent legislation changes, EU more

09.13.2012

Romania attracted 50% or over EUR4 billion through the National Program of Rural Development, or PNDR, since 2007 in payments through beneficiaries, Agriculture Minister Daniel Constantin told news more

09.13.2012

Romania asks the European Commission to grant financial support for an area of 12 million hectares, compared with 7 million hectares as settled upon the European Union’s accession, minister of more

08.31.2012

Nearly 800,000 hectares of farmland in Romania, accounting for 6% of the country’s total agricultural area, are exploited by foreign individuals or firms, Florin Marius Faur, head of the regional more

08.28.2012

The Romanian Government has decided that the money to be collected this year from the biggest sale of mobile communications licenses in Romanian history - around EUR200 million – will be fully more

08.20.2012

Romania will increase the subsidies for eco-farming from EUR3 million to EUR4 million, and beneficiaries will no longer be required to have no debts to the state or local budgets. more

08.14.2012

Romanian farmers have received almost EUR4 billion for investment projects in the six years the EU has been pumping funds into agriculture. But what is the actual impact of these funds on agriculture more

08.03.2012

Agro Chirnoghi, part of the Maria group controlled by a group of Lebanese businessmen, has, thanks to irrigation, managed to obtain an average production of 5 tons of wheat per hectare, down by a more

08.01.2012

Agriculture, renewable energy and IT&C have been the most attractive sectors for foreign investors this year, which spent several hundreds of millions of euros to enter Romania. more

07.27.2012

Small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the agriculture sector, whose wheat and sunflower crops were affected by drought, will receive compensations covering 80% of damages, while small farmers more

07.24.2012

Romania's Government decided to cut the value added tax VAT for the basic food products from 24% to 9% as of 2013, as part of a package of measures for the agricultural sector, official sources said more

07.23.2012

Romania’s farming production rose to 76.5 billion lei (EUR16.64 billion) in 2011, up 8.9% from 2010, of which crop production amounted to RON54.1 billion, accounting for 70.8%, up 13% from 2010, the more

07.06.2012

US grain traders Cargill and Alfred C. Toepfer, the top two players on the local market of farming raw materials, last year managed to post turnover of EUR1.1 billion together, Trade Registry data more

07.03.2012

This year’s grain harvest is estimated at almost 18 million tons, just 7% lower than the record-high 2011 figures. Converted in money, as prices remained high, almost EUR5 billion should go into more

06.26.2012

Brise Group SRL, a company based in Constanta (SE Romania) and held by Catalin Bucur, emerged as the largest grain trader owned by a Romanian entrepreneur last year. It posted EUR125 million in more

06.25.2012

The investors who had nothing to do with farming three or four years ago are now rushing to start a business in the sector, attracted by the high prices of agricultural raw materials that generate more

06.22.2012

Barley, which makes an EUR250 million market, traditionally less important than the wheat and corn market, is gives the first indication of the prices of agricultural raw material this year. more

06.18.2012

A group of 39 farmers in Giurgiu County (southern Romania), who operate 25,000 hectares of arable land together, have managed to persuade traders to sell them seeds or pesticides up to 30% cheaper more

05.30.2012

The about 3,000 Romanian farmers whose crops have been damaged by heavy snowfalls in January and February will receive state aid capped at EUR7,500 per beneficiary, Agriculture Minister Daniel more