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The Angst group, a major cold meat producer and food retailer on the Romanian market, is targeting €75 million in net sales in 2009, up some seven percent year-on-year, according to company data.

EP negotiators struck a compromise with Council representatives on Wednesday night on the final shape of new EU pesticides legislation.

Romanian farmers will be granted an annual average subsidy worth 1,500 lei (EUR1=RON3.9389) per hectare, and the state will subsidize 30% of loans taken for production, according to the 2009-2012 agenda of the country’s new center-left government.

Another approximate 500 kilograms of processed pork meat coming from Ireland were pulled off the market. The meat was identified Friday following food safety inspections.

Over 3.5 tons of contaminated pork from Ireland, which reached a warehouse in Romania’s capital city Bucharest, were supplied to five companies located in three Romanian counties, Csutak Nagy Laszlo, vice-president of Romania’s sanitary-veterinary and food safety authority, said Wednesday.

The EP Agriculture Committee called on Monday for “immediate and continuous action” to ensure global food security. It believes the aid of EUR 1 billion that the EU has decided to give to developing countries should be accompanied by fresh investment in agriculture and it calls for mechanisms to be set up to ensure that […]

Caroli Foods, a major cold meat producer on the local market, is expecting some €90 million in net sales in 2009, up one third year-on-year. Company officials said that the 2009 budget estimate is based on a RON 3.8/€1 exchange rate, with a slight appreciation of the national currency in next year’s second half.

Albalact, the largest local dairy producer, foresees business growth of up to 10 percent year-on-year in 2009. Earlier this year, the company was estimating €72 million in turnover for 2008. The company also expects a slight rise in profit in 2009, but not significant year-on-year. “We believe that Romanians will focus on cheaper, basic products […]

The 9-hour negotiation on 21 November between representatives of Parliament and the Council of Ministers delivered an overall deal on the 2009 budget and on the € 1 billion agricultural aid for developing countries, the so called „food facility”.