10.24.2024

The European Commission has approved a EUR400 million Romanian state aid scheme to compensate farmers affected by severe drought, the Commission has announced in a press statement on Oct 24, 2024. more

07.22.2024

Romania’s corn production will be about 7 milion tons in 2024, lower than the USDA and European Commission’s forecasts of 10.8 million tons and 10.6 million tons, analysts say, according to the more

12.04.2023

The European Commission has approved EUR33.9 million from the European Union Solidarity Fund (EUSF) to support Romania in addressing the extensive damages caused by droughts and wildfires in 2022. more

10.08.2020

Sales of large plots of farmland were forced to „thaw up” after a half-year hiatus with the coming of the fall, as Romanian farmers put up their land for sale, due to the drought that caused more

09.09.2015

The extended drought that announces a very bad agricultural year is making macroeconomists revise their 2015 growth forecasts downwards. more

08.25.2015

Romanian Agriculture Minister Daniel Constantin said Tuesday, at the meeting of the agriculture commission in the Chamber of Deputies, that the maize, sunflower and soy crops were the most affected by more

08.06.2015

Romania’s wheat production will not see a decline this year, but the corn, potato and sunflower production sees a "substantial" decrease, Romanian central bank governor Mugur Isarescu said Thursday. more

08.04.2015

Drought has seriously damaged this year’s crops and caused EUR2 billion losses to producers, which represent unrecoverable investments, thus, prices of Romanian products will increase in the more

07.31.2015

Agricultural production reached the highest of the decade at the end of last year, but 2015 is turning out to be a rather bad year due to the drought that has already lasted for weeks and the more

11.14.2012

Agriculture, a sector that generates 6% of Romania’s’ gross domestic product (EUR10 billion to EUR11 billion) a year and made a significant contribution to the 2011 economic growth of 2.5%, more

10.23.2012

The drought has caused losses of around 20% on most agricultural sectors, with some crops even facing a 60% lower production, while others were not affected, Agriculture Minister Daniel Constantin more

10.16.2012

Drought will also affect this autumn’s harvests of wheat and rapeseed after the high temperatures and lack of rain this summer led to a reduction of up to 40% in cereal productions, causing EUR1 more

09.27.2012

Romanian farmers harvested 7 million tons of corn and 1.3 million tons of sunflower this fall, almost 40% less than record levels of 2011, according to the estimates of the European Commission. more

09.01.2012

Romania’s Government approved a EUR42.8 million aid scheme Saturday, to benefit about 600,000 farmers whose crops have been affected by drought this summer, said Agriculture Minister Daniel more

08.24.2012

Exports of wheat, corn and barley made through the port of Constanta, the leading hub through which Romania sends grains abroad, reached 3.6 million tons after the first seven months of the year, more

08.22.2012

Drought has affected more than 3.7 million hectares of Romania's farmland (around 40% of the arable land), and 30.5% of fall 2011 wheat crop has suffered from the lack of water, says a document more

08.01.2012

Farmers will lose EUR2 billion in revenue to the drought because only 100,000 hectares, that is 1.5% of the total arable land of Romania, are irrigated. more

07.24.2012

The Romanian Government will reduce prices of irrigation water by 50 lei (EUR10.7)/1,000 cubic meters, will allot extra EUR25 million for irrigation projects and will compensate farmers whose 2012 more

07.24.2012

The drought will translate into up to 30% lower corn and sunflower crops this year, costing the farmers EUR1.4 billion to EUR1.5 billion in lost revenue, according to ZF estimates based on more

07.23.2012

The Romanian Government will subsidize the energy necessary for the irrigation systems in order to fight the effects of this year's drought, Premier Victor Ponta said Monday. more

07.19.2012

The drought and high temperatures have already ruined about one third of the local corn crops but the farmers will be able to offset some of the losses as a result of rising quotes. more

07.17.2012

Romanian farmers announce significant declines estimated at 30% to 35% for the corn production less than three months before harvesting time as a result of the high temperatures this spring and more

04.11.2012

Agrofarm Holding, one of the top ten agricultural producers on the Romanian market, will record a EUR23 million turnover this year, down 8% on 2011. The turnover decline is due to the drought that did 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

01.20.2012

Warm winter should be good news for wind farm builders, but this time the lack of rain and snowfall created a problem. Since very big equipment (a wind turbine is around 100-meter tall), is carried on more