Romanian Agriculture Minister Valeriu Tabara told a news conference Tuesday the country’s land law must be amended to forbid parceling out small farms when selling them. read more...

Romanian Agriculture Minister Valeriu Tabara told a news conference Tuesday the ministry wants to subsidize price hikes for diesel fuel used in farming if it gets the approval of the European Commission. read more...

Finnish group Tornator, which holds 12,000 hectares of forest in Romania, has bought a further 500 hectares in Buzău county, in the first major transaction involving forests this year. read more...

Agricover, a major agricultural group domestically, saw its turnover rise by 52% last year to 636.6m lei (151m euros), with the advance being supported by the grain unit that accounts almost 60% in the group's turnover. read more...

Demand for loans in the agricultural sector has increased eight times in the past few years, Agriculture minister Valeriu Tabără claims. read more...

Israeli company Tnuva will halt its cowshed activity in Romania, with representatives of the milk producer saying the decision was made on financial considerations, according to ynetnews.com. Tnuva has some 1,2 milk cows in Romania, covering 25% of the local production of the company. read more...

Iaşi-based Cotnari wine producer, with 25m-euro turnover last year, has budgeted 50% higher volumes of wine sold abroad for this year, as the company has almost completed talks over a contract in Russia. read more...

Adrian Porumboiu, Mihai Anghel, Culita Tarata and Stefan Poienaru, four of the biggest agricultural producers, say Romania's chance in the current global context, where prices of agricultural products registered the most spectacular leap of the past 50 years, is to cultivate the agricultural land now full of weeds. read more...

A group of Dutch and German investors, who last year paid 4.7m euros to buy a cow farm belonging to Albalact from Raul Ciurtin, say they hold some 10m euros for expansion in Romania, with their biggest project entailing the construction of a 2,000-cow farm in Alba county. read more...

Italian, Greek, Jewish, French, Dutch, Cypriot and Lebanese investors control half of the 20 companies with the highest number of cattle in Romania. read more...

Romanian Agriculture Minister Valeriu Tabara told a news conference Saturday it is inadmissible Romania has come to import milk and dairy products that aren’t always of the highest quality. read more...

The price of vegetable oil in Romania might increase by about 30% in April or March, due to a lack of raw materials on the local market, Foodstuff Industry Union Federation president Dragos Frumosu told MEDIAFAX. read more...

Agriculture Minister Valeriu Tabără said yesterday that as long as he was in office, foreigners would not be allowed to buy farming land in Romania without restrictions. read more...

Romanian pig breeders say pork contaminated with dioxin, a carcinogen, may have made its way into Romania from Germany and ask that imports from this country be stopped. read more...

Data collectors have completed, since the start of the collection of statistical data on the ground for the General Agricultural Census / RGA /, 98.77 percent of the statistical questionnaires estimated to be registered, the National Institute of Statistics / INS / informed on Friday. read more...

The world's grain giants, such as Alfred Toepfer, Cargill, Glencore and Bunge last year reached 800 million euros in exports from the Romanian market, 30% more than in 2009. read more...

Land owners that don"t maintain their land run the risk of being fined, starting next year, with 50 Euros/hectare, officials sources said for Bursa. read more...

Romanian cattle farmers will receive state aid amounting to 410 lei/head (EUR1=RON4.2998), according to a Government decision allotting RON569 million for around 225,000 beneficiaries. read more...

Romanian agriculture consumes more than it produces and food products whose prices increased the most in the last year were local, said Tuesday Sorin Minea, head of the employers association in the food industry, Romalimenta. read more...

Romanian farmers will receive subsidies amounting to 1.27 billion lei (EUR1=RON4.2923) for the August 2010-December 2011 interval, according to a draft Government decision. read more...