How best to halt the fall in milk prices and relieve producers? The measures taken or envisaged by the European Commission to resolve the current crisis are inadequate, said Agriculture Committee MEPs and producer representatives in a debate on Tuesday 21 July. A majority of committee members advocated readjusting quotas decided as part of the […]
Tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, the Ministry of Agriculture holds tenders for the award of management rights for 41 hunting funds, including that in Balc, Bihor county, given up by businessman Ion Ţiriac.
Mihai Petrea (40), general manager and majority shareholder of milk producer Lactaprod in Braila county, has taken over half of the shares of the former mineral water business of Bere Mures producer. The other half of the business is currently held by Horea Balan, son of Ioan Balan, former owner of Covalact.
Romanian President Traian Basescu met Thursday in Prague with Czech businesspeople, whom he encouraged to invest in Romania’s agriculture and rural tourism, MEDIAFAX Czech Republic reported. Basescu said the Romanian government has EUR54 billion until 2013 that can be invested in agriculture. „This may be a challenge for you as well, a challenge for European […]
Romania’s Agriculture Ministry will cut management positions by 36% to 42, following the dismantling of 11 out of 32 departments, ministry secretary general Miron Moldovan said Thursday. The ministry currently has 65 management positions. In addition, 136 employees with the ministry’s the central department will be transferred to subordinated structures, including the Paying Agency for […]
Romania’s agriculture minister Ilie Sarbu on Saturday said Romania’s attempt, during 2001-2004, to adopt a law meant to unite plots of land failed after meeting farmers’ strong opposition. The minister said small farmers were not at all happy with the measure meant to unite land plots because many of them are still reluctant to „farming […]
Smithfield Ferme company, the local subsidiary of the U.S. pork processor, posted positive operating profit in the first half of 2009, when special programs to analyze spending and cut costs were applied in order to optimize production, according to company officials.order
Poultry processor Agricola International Bacău, the second-largest player ont the local market, posted business worth RON 132.4 million (€31.4 mln) in the second quarter of 2009, some 20.5 percent higher year-on-year.
Scandia foodstuffs producer, the leader of the local market, increased its market share by 4 percent in the first half of 2009, up to some 69 percent, while the market shrunk 1.5 percent in terms of volume on the pate segment and rose 7.8 percent on the food segment, according to company officials. They were […]
Romania’s Ministry of Agriculture will cut to half the number of staff in its central apparatus, to 300 employees from the more than 600 currently employed, agriculture minister Ilie Sarbu said Wednesday. He added the government decision enabling the staff cut will be adopted next week. „We’ve finished getting all approvals for the government decision. […]
