Freight transshipment through the Port of Kavkaz increased by 15.5% as compared with 2008 – up 8.1 million tons in 2009, IAA PortNews reports citing the Port Authority. The amount of raid handling of export sulfur grew by 45.28 percent, to 1.890.000 tons, of fuel oil as much as 1.6 times, to 1.290.000 tons, of […]
Grain shipments from the Black Sea to Asia look set to fall, slashed by a surge in ocean freight rates fed by China’s hunger for vessels to ferry home its global commodity purchases and fears of predatory attacks by Somali pirates. The cost of shipping grain in bulk from the Black Sea region – a […]
Tractor production in Ukraine fell by 77.2% in 2009 year-over-year, to 1,443 vehicles. According to the State Statistics Committee, the production of seeders shrank by 79.5% to 1,582 units, while the production of disk harrows fell by 83.2% to 926 units. Tractor production fell by 20% in 2008 year-over-year, to 6,339 vehicles.
Romanian exports of agri-food products exports grew by about 5% in the first ten months of 2009, to 1.84 billion euros, compared to 1.75 billion euros in the same period of 2008, while imports decreased by 18%, from 3.41 billion euros to 2.8 billion euros. Thus, according to data supplied by the Ministry of Agriculture […]
Romanian meteorologists issued a code orange weather advisory valid between Sunday and Wednesday morning, forecasting temperatures that could go down to minus 26 degrees Celsius during night, in seven counties.
The delegation of the officials of the Canadian Agri-Sustainability Partnership – CASP, recently presented the conclusions of its official visit to Romania, which revolve first and foremost around the significant potential of the farming sector and the solutions for improving the situation of Romania”s agriculture. As part of the event hosted by his Excellency, Mr. […]
Chinese company Hoyo Râşnov expects to begin tractor production and deliver the first finished tractors on the Romanian market in April, when tractor production is expected to begin, the company”s general manager, Denisa Vasilescu announced. Due to some issues with the assembly units of the plant, the manufacturing of the first tractors has been put […]
My top priority as European Commissioner for Agriculture will be to define the prospects of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) after 2013, European Commissioner Designate for Agriculture Dacian Ciolos told the agriculture committee of the European Parliament on Friday.
The current budget allotted by the European Union is enough generous to allow the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) function and I believe it is important we maintain a good budget in agriculture, the designated Commissioner for Agriculture Romanian MEP Dacian Ciolos said at the hearings in the specialized committee of the European Parliament (AGRI).
Small family holdings are an important part of the European agriculture and are not an exclusive feature of the new member states, European Commissioner-designate in charge of Agriculture Dacian Ciolos declared on Friday, in Brussels, during the European Parliament’s Agriculture Committee hearings.
