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

02.02.2012

Romania should reduce the VAT on farming products from 24% to 10%, to lower food prices and prevent tax evasion, Agriculture Minister Valeriu Tabara said Thursday in a press conference. more

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

01.17.2012

Last fall’s drought has already compromised the better part of Romania's rapeseed crops and there is reason to worry about the wheat crop, too. 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

12.14.2011

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

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

11.01.2011

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

10.26.2011

The record agricultural year has encouraged Romanian farmers to invest in grain storage to avoid selling wheat or corn soon after harvesting it for one third of the prices charged in winter or spring. more

10.19.2011

The number of new companies in the Romanian agricultural sector went up by 130% in the first nine months of this year compared with the same time in 2010. This means the number of companies in this more

10.14.2011

Romania could earn substantially from exports of ecological farming products, if it had the subsidies provided in other EU member states, said Marian Cioceanu, head of the Bio Romania association, more

10.14.2011

The European Commission will propose paying an annual premium of EUR500-1000 to small farmers already registered in the system, starting in 2014, Commissioner for Agriculture Dacian Ciolos said more

10.06.2011

In its Wednesday meeting, the Romanian government discussed granting aids to farmers worth a total of EUR185 million this year and in 2012. more

09.23.2011

Jean Valvis, the man who created the Dorna (mineral water) and LaDorna (dairy products) brands, and brothers Ioan and Viorel Micula, who own European Drinks group, are now among the top ten corn more

09.23.2011

Dragos Petrescu, the owner of the City Grill restaurant chain and of Caru cu Bere, has decided to set up a farm on a seven hectare plot in Mihailesti, Giurgiu County (Southern Romania), where he wants more

08.25.2011

Cargill, Alfred C. Toepfer, Ameropa and Nidera, four of the largest grain traders operating in Romania, had their best year ever in 2010, as their local business went up by as much as 200%. The growth more

08.22.2011

Wheat producer prices ranged from 500 lei (EUR120)/ton to RON1,000 (EUR230)/ton, but many farmers are waiting for autumn and hoping for higher gains. The most expensive wheat in Romania, at over more

07.29.2011

Agriculture has started to become a business in Romania after last year saw prices of agricultural products skyrocket on international markets. Most farmers continue to have plots of a few hectares in more

07.19.2011

Romania has a farming land area of 0.6 hectares (6,000 square meters/inhabitant), the largest in the European Union, and ranks fifth among EU members by total farmland area, with a lower population more

07.14.2011

Romanian agriculture has suddenly become interesting for investors, with 10,000 new companies being set up in the sector in the first half of this year, 80% more than in the similar period of 2010. more

07.12.2011

With a 9.4 million-hectare farming area, Romania has a 175,000-tractor fleet, while Poland, with 14 million hectares, has 1.5 million operational tractors, UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization more

06.30.2011

The number of farms in Romania stood at 3.9 million last year, down 14% compared to the level revealed by the 2002 farming census, the National Statistics Institute (INS) said Thursday citing data more

06.29.2011

Exports of corn and sunflower more than doubled in the first quarter compared with the first quarter of 2010, to EUR238 million. The advance was fueled by the record high prices of grain, but also by more

06.22.2011

Romania's Government on Wednesday decided to put together a special committee to oversee the privatization or management until sale of state-owned farming companies. more

05.31.2011

The area of ecologically farmed land has grown in Romania around 15 times in the last ten years, to 260,000 hectares – making up almost 2% of the total farm production, according to the Agriculture more