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Romania could face a food crisis next year

Romania could face a food crisis next year, in the lack of subsidies in live stock farming, and due to the reduction of areas cultivated with grain, according to producers in the field.


Agroli business up 20%

Agroli Group, one of the top three poultry producers locally, estimates net sales worth €70 million for 2009, up 20 percent year-on-year, while profit is expected to drop compared to 2008, due to the economic recession and the fact that the price of one kilogram of poultry remained unchanged, on the back of high production […]

Romanian products a must in hypermarkets

The Agricultural Consultant at the French Embassy in Bucharest, Pierre Schwartz, said that the sale of local products in hypermarkets must become a priority in Romania, because store shelves should not be filled with foreign goods.

The crisis is over for agriculture, and industry is next

Romania is slowly recovering from the recession. According to data provided by the National Institute of Statistics (INS), agriculture, industry, financial activities, the real estate sector, and services for companies have emerged from the recession and posted growth in the third quarter, compared to the previous three months, while construction and trade are still in […]

Romanian food sector failed test in 2009

At the end of last year, the food sector was forecast to be among the sectors to be hit most by the crisis. It is the very reason why the representatives of this sector, as well as the other players on the Romanian market, asked the Government to take the necessary measures necessary so we […]

Cioloş: A Commissioner with a budget the size of Romania’s

Dacian Cioloş, nominated by the President of the European Commission for the agriculture portfolio, has every chance of being approved during European Parliament hearings, but he does not have the power to influence the Common Agriculture Policy (CAP) from his position of European Commission representative, according to analysts and officials interviewed by Business Standard.

Romania loses position as major powdered milk exporter

While Romania was one of Europe’s largest powdered milk producers in the 1990s, with 40 factories, it now has only four units with domestic capital, and imports cover 75 percent of the local market. Domestic production, of 29,300 tons in 1990, fell to 6,136 tons last year, according to the National Institute of Statistics (INS), […]

Romania at the mercy of a new virus: bill estimated at €10 mln

The Ministry of Health is preparing a new approach for the A/H1N1 flu, with immunization in centres of infection, compared to the gradual immunization program announced previously, which was meant to target medical staff, then high school students and children.