06.25.2014

Agribusiness group Agricover has entered the market of vegetable procurement from seven basins including Vidra, Izbiceni, Dracea or Lunguletu, and targets revenue of EUR12 million from the more

06.23.2014

Farmers will harvest 750,000 tons of rapeseed in a few weeks, 9.6% more than in 2013 and the highest amount in four years, but the yield will be 2.15 tons per hectare, down 5% on last season. more

06.12.2014

Constanta-based Elcomex group saw its energy revenue slide last year by 60% in euros, to EUR24 million, due to the renewable energy market decline, but its parallel investment in an integrated goat more

06.06.2014

Niro Investment Group and Chinese company Hua Yu Industrial Group signed an agreement on investing EUR150 million in organic farming, animal breeding and milk processing in Romania, Niro general more

05.28.2014

SIF Imobiliare (SIFI.RO), a firm registered in Cyprus and held by Romanian regional investment fund SIF Banat-Crisana (SIF1.RO), Wednesday said it set up the firm SIFI TM Agro to which it granted a more

05.06.2014

The largest 20 Romanian cattle owners have between them 16,000 head and see EUR115 million revenue a year together, according to a ZF analysis based on data from Agency for Payments and Intervention more

04.25.2014

In search of childhood tastes and a quiet life, corporate employees and professionals in various fields relocated to the countryside to try and establish an organic farming business, says the latest more

02.21.2014

Nikos Chlepas, a Greek investor who was involved in the Neoset furniture business five years ago, as well as in several real estate projects, last year switched to snail farming with a 10-hectare 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

10.30.2013

Romania will double the agricultural area used for organic farming in the next seven years, Prime Minister Victor Ponta said Wednesday. more

10.15.2013

Klemens Tonnies, the owner of German football club Shalke 04 and of Tonnies Fleischwerk, one of the largest pork producers in Europe, is farming more than 4,000 hectares of rented land in Romania via more

07.16.2013

Businessman Jihad El Khalil, one of the leading farmers in Romania, announced investments worth EUR22 million in an alfalfa bale processing facility and a vegetable oil plant. more

04.17.2013

The Romanian industry of farming equipment relies on just eight manufacturers, while 23 years ago, when communism collapsed, there were almost 30 manufacturers, says Ion Pirna, general manager of the more

03.11.2013

Romanian farmers will harvest between 18 and 19 million tons of grains in 2013, 50% more than last year, but nowhere near the 40 million-ton production potential of local agriculture. 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

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

08.01.2012

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

07.31.2012

Romania's Government has approved financial aid for cattle and buffalo farmers in disadvantaged areas, up to a limit of EUR30 million. 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

Agricultural machinery manufacturer Biso, an Austrian company that discreetly entered the Romanian market in 2004, is changing its development strategy in Eastern Europe as a result of the fast-paced 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

04.23.2012

Romanian Agriculture Minister Stelian Fuia on Monday said the tax on registered farming machines will be eliminated through the amendments that will be brought to the Tax Code. 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

04.04.2012

United Grain Group, one of few grain traders built by a Romanian entrepreneur, plans to take the first step towards farming by acquiring 2,000 hectares of land and to expand throughout the entire more

03.29.2012

Bucovina Vehicles SA, a Romanian company whose shareholders include PDL senator Sorin Fodoreanu, plans to build a farm machinery factory in Gura Humorului, Suceava county. more