02.01.2012

Titan Machinery, the largest dealer of farming equipment in the US, which recently entered Romania through the acquisition of Agroexpert Timisoara, chose the local market as its first expansion thanks more

01.24.2012

Buzau (SE Romania) businessman Constantin Toma, who successfully steered the Romet group towards EUR300 million sales last year, plans to consolidate business at this level in 2012 and also boost more

01.15.2012

The price of wheat rose 5% between December 21, 2011 and January 11, 2012 to EUR176/ton, according to data from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MADR). However, the current price is more

01.12.2012

Reimbursement requests for EU farming aid will be processed within 45 days, the same as in the case of structural and cohesion funds, Romania's Government announced. more

01.12.2012

Ion Alexandru Tiriac, son of Romanian billionaire Ion Tiriac, says he wants to expand the activity of Tiriac Holdings to new sectors which are recording significant increases, such as the agriculture. more

01.11.2012

The agricultural sector contributed almost EUR19 billion to the Romanian gross domestic product in 2011, according to the estimates of Raiffeisen Bank’s research unit based on preliminary data from more

12.29.2011

Romanian farmers harvested this year a record wheat crop of over 7 million tons, an increase of 30% on the previous year. Money-wise, this year’s crop is worth about EUR1.3 billion, considering one more

12.22.2011

Romanian farmers will have to “fight” around 40 weeds in order to avoid fines of up to EUR100/hectare, according to the latest emergency ordinance draft aimed at fining owners who don’t remove more

12.21.2011

Romania had its best agricultural year of the last five years, and grain traders moved fast consolidating their business through acquisitions. Next year looks like it will be difficult because of the more

12.16.2011

Romania will increase subsidies for poultry breeders by 41.3 million lei (EUR9.51 million) to RON430 million in 2012, according to a draft Government decision. more

12.14.2011

The Agriculture Ministry has EUR3.5 billion available for next year and 90% of this amount should go to farmers as state aid, direct payments for farming land and as European financing. more

12.13.2011

The Romanian Parliament on Tuesday adopted the 2012 budget of the Agriculture Ministry, amounting to 14.9 billion lei (EUR3.42 billion). more

12.08.2011

The record-breaking farming output this year had a positive impact on the mobile telephony market, says Florin Popa, Sales and Distribution director of Orange, the largest telecom operator in Romania. more

12.07.2011

The Romanian Parliament budget and finance committees on Wednesday approved with 24 to 12 votes and two abstentions the Agriculture Ministry’s budget for 2012, in the format proposed by the more

12.05.2011

The committees for agriculture in the Romanian Parliament on Monday approved the 2012 budget of the Agriculture Ministry, of 14.9 billion lei (EUR3.42 billion), nearly RON1 billion lower than this more

11.25.2011

Romania’s Agency for Payments and Intervention in Agriculture (APIA) on Friday, November 25, will pay 577 million lei (EUR132.4 million) to 351,000 farmers within a state aid campaign (SAPS 2011) more

11.24.2011

The edible oil unit of Cargill, the largest grain trader on the local market, posted revenue of EUR34.2 million in the first half, almost 70% more than in the same interval of 2010. more

11.21.2011

The area of Romanian farmland owned by foreigners increased by over 10% this year to 709,000 hectares from 635,000 hectares in 2010, and 24.29% of it belongs to Italians, Agriculture Minister Valeriu more

11.21.2011

Romania’s Agriculture Ministry will try to raise subsidies granted to cattle and sheep breeders by 10% to 12% from 40 lei (EUR9.17) to RON45 per head for sheep and from RON410 to RON469 per head for more

11.17.2011

Romania’s Agriculture Ministry will borrow EUR311 million from the state treasury to pay off subsidies, Prime Minister Emil Boc said late Wednesday. more

11.16.2011

Mihai Mucsi had been working for the Potato Research Center in Targu Secuiesc (central Romania) for 15 years and by 1994 he no longer found “enough satisfaction” in it so that he decided to try more

11.10.2011

The Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB.RO) on Thursday launches a wheat futures contract that will offer farmers a reference for the price of wheat, which they can use to sell their crop. more

11.02.2011

The more significant economic growth in the third quarter, estimated at 3%, has been noticed especially by businesspeople working in the agricultural sector, in tourism and in exports, but not on the more

11.01.2011

The better than expected economic growth in the third quarter, which President Traian Basescu puts at 3%, is driving analysts’ estimates for the entire year up towards 2% compared with 1.5% as more

11.01.2011

The more than 13 million hectares of farming land in Romania are worth over EUR25 billion, considering the average price per hectare is almost EUR2,000. The local farming land price is among the more