Agricultural Regions: The historic provinces of Walachia, Transylvania, Moldavia, Dobruja, and the Banat have distinct soil and climatic conditions that make them suitable for different types of agriculture. The breadbasket of Romania is Walachia, which provides half the annual grain harvest and roughly half the fruit and grapes. Truck farming, especially in the Ilfov Agricultural […]
The production of the new TAG farm tractors made by IRUM SA company in Reghin /centre/ under Belarus license, will be started officially this month. Agnes Gottfert, marketing manager in IRUM, said that benefiting from technology and know-how from Belarus, and also from local specialists, the new range of farm tractors TAG will meet the […]
Employers in Romania forecast a balanced activity on the local labor market for the last quarter of the year but are less pessimistic than in the fourth quarter of 2009, according to a survey by human resources company Manpower.
Romanian farmers’ union federation Agrostar and the National Federation of Farm Producers (FNPAR) put off planned protests until early October in order to hold talks with the new Agriculture Minister Valeriu Tabara.
The ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly asked the European Commission to help EU and ACP banana producers adapt to the new EU-Latin America trade agreement, which is expected to put an end to fifteen years of „banana wars” between the two continents, but has raised concerns for the livelihood of some regions’ producers. Members also called […]
Shareholders of „Avicola” Braşov have agreed to have the company participate in an agricultural cooperative in the county of Alba, in which it will hold a 20% stake, and will invest 2,000 lei in its share capital. Also, the shareholders agreed to revoke the owner of the company, Ioan Popa, from his position of member […]
Alcohol producers seem to contribute to the Health Ministry (HM) much less than those of the tobacco industry, given that the latter paid over 635 million euros in 2008 and 2009, and the HM claims that it spent 746 million euros of this tax in the past two years.
In 2010, the general grain production in Ukraine will reach the level of 45.2 mln tonnes with the average yield of 30.1 c/ha. According to data to APK-Inform Agency, in the current year, the country will face the reduction of winter wheat production volumes, which traditionally form the main basis (90-95%) in the structure of […]
Agricover Group’s turnover increased by 20.2% last year, to 402.7 million lei, compared to the previous year, when it registered 335 million lei, while profit rose by 68%, from 7.5 million lei to 12.6 million lei. Among the divisions and companies that make up Agricover Group, the largest increase in turnover was registered by Agricover […]
The production of cereals for grains declined by 11.2% in 2009, as against the previous year, to 14.934 million tonnes from 16.826 million tonnes, mainly due to a reduction in yields per hectare (average production per hectare), namely wheat by -30.0%, barley and two-row barley by -26.4%, and oats by -23.7%.
