05.29.2012

Combine harvester and tractor maker Claas saw higher sales of agricultural machinery in Romania last year than it did in Spain and Italy, countries with a larger area of farming land, which accounts more

05.20.2012

Romanian Agriculture Minister Daniel Constantin said Sunday that he will sponsor a bill package to promote Romanian food products and stimulate their sale in hypermarkets. more

05.18.2012

Jeffrey Notaro, a trader who worked on Wall Street for 18 years, where he traded both bonds and futures contracts, set up investment fund Black Sea Agriculture seven years ago, together with a partner more

05.04.2012

The governing program of Romania’s new Cabinet proposed by Prime Minister-designate Victor Ponta targets to speed up farmland merger, refurbish the irrigation infrastructure using EU funds, ease more

05.02.2012

Romanian Agriculture Minister-designate Daniel Constantin said Wednesday that the ministry must access around EUR2.5 billion in European funds by the end of the year. more

04.12.2012

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

04.11.2012

Romania's Government has increased the value of state subsidies this year for poultry and pig welfare by 66.48 million lei (EUR15.19 million), the Agriculture Ministry announced Wednesday. more

04.11.2012

After years in which the authorities and politicians have just talked about taxing agriculture, the Finance Ministry readily admits “agriculture is less taxed than the rest of economic sectors,” more

04.10.2012

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

04.10.2012

Exports of agri-food products will exceed imports only in 2014, when exports of processed products are expected to rise, while the current bet is on exports to Asian markets, where local producers do more

04.02.2012

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

03.30.2012

Romania’s state-owned lender CEC Bank granted farmers 10,294 loans worth nearly EUR20 million in the first three months of 2012, CEC Bank president Radu Ghetea said Friday at the conference Mediafax more

03.30.2012

Romania could have a positive trade balance in the farming sector if it exported food products, with added value, instead of raw materials for food products, Agriculture Minister Stelian Fuia said more

03.29.2012

US billionaire Jim Rogers, 69, one of the most influential voices in the global business world, who says the time of financial sophistication is over and bets on a return of manufacturers of real more

03.23.2012

The Romanian Government will create a credit fund meant to help farmers who want to carry out EU-funded projects co-finance investments, according to a draft emergency ordinance. more

03.19.2012

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

03.19.2012

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

03.15.2012

Romania’s Agriculture Ministry on Thursday launched the National Rural Development Network (RNDR) through which farmers will receive counsel on how to develop local businesses using European money. more

03.15.2012

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

03.14.2012

Romania’s Agriculture Ministry is working on a project to set up a land bank which will have pre-emption right to purchase farmlands to further merge, lease or sell them, Agriculture Minister more

03.14.2012

Romania’s Agriculture Ministry targets absorbing EUR1 billion in EU funds in the first quarter of the year and plans to attract EUR2.5 billion this year, minister Stelian Fuia told a seminar on more

02.28.2012

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

02.24.2012

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

02.22.2012

Romania’s Agriculture Minister Stelian Fuia on Wednesday dismissed the headship of the management authority for the operational program for fisheries, as it absorbed no money from the EUR320 million more

02.14.2012

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