04.12.2012

Romanian farmers and local communities are on their knees before foreign banks, so the agricultural sector needs a farmers' bank, minister Stelian Fuia told MEDIAFAX on Thursday. more

04.06.2012

Romanian Agriculture Minister Stelian Fuia on Friday said farmers’ teaming up in associations will gradually turn the country's agricultural sector into an “engine of constant growth.” more

04.03.2012

The Romanian Agriculture Ministry will grant compensation of 8.52 million lei (EUR1.9 million), from the state budget, to farmers whose vegetable greenhouses have been affected by freezing weather and more

03.30.2012

Romania’s agricultural growth is affected, among others, by banks’ reluctance to finance farmers, although the interest on loans is higher compared to other countries, Agriculture Minister Stelian more

02.29.2012

Romania's agriculture payments agency (APIA) will launch Thursday the 2012 campaign to receive requests for payments per area. more

02.07.2012

Romania will subsidize the interest on loans taken by farmers between January 28 and December 31, 2011 by up to 5% in 2012 and 2013, according to an ordinance issued in 2010, whose methodology was more

01.24.2012

Romanian young farmers submitted over 3,800 projects between November 28, 2011 and January 13, 2012 to access non-reimbursable financing through the Agency for Rural Development and Fishing Payments more

01.11.2012

Romania's Agriculture Ministry has been authorized by the Government to borrow 3.75 billion lei (EUR860 million) from the Treasury and use it on direct area payments to farmers. more

12.29.2011

Romanian farmers harvested this year a record wheat crop of over 7 million tons, an increase of 30% on the previous year. Money-wise, this year’s crop is worth about EUR1.3 billion, considering one more

12.22.2011

Romanian farmers will have to “fight” around 40 weeds in order to avoid fines of up to EUR100/hectare, according to the latest emergency ordinance draft aimed at fining owners who don’t remove more

12.19.2011

Low rainfall in the next months will reduce Romania’s production of vegetables by 50%, which will affect the economic growth estimated for next year. more

12.05.2011

Romania's Finance Ministry will withdraw its proposal to tax small agricultural producers and will work with the Agriculture Ministry to prevent tax evasion in farming, Finance Minister Gheorghe more

11.25.2011

Romania’s Agency for Payments and Intervention in Agriculture (APIA) on Friday, November 25, will pay 577 million lei (EUR132.4 million) to 351,000 farmers within a state aid campaign (SAPS 2011) more

10.14.2011

EU Commissioner for Agriculture Dacian Ciolos said Friday the European Commission’s proposals on the 2014-2020 Common Agricultural Policy include a 25% increase in direct payments per hectare for more

09.19.2011

The National Federation of Romanian Agricultural Producers (FNPAR) wants the total area of farmland for which subsidies are granted through the single payment scheme to be increased from 8.7 million more

08.18.2011

Romania’s Government will pay vegetable producers EUR3.75 million to compensate for their losses caused by the E-coli epidemic scare this summer, according to a draft government decision. more

06.30.2011

The European Commission will analyze, in July, the requests for compensation filed by producers affected by the E.coli outbreak, Dacian Ciolos, commissioner for Agriculture, said Thursday. more

05.17.2011

Romania's Agency for Agriculture Payments and Intervention (APIA) announced Tuesday that 1.04 million farmers have filed requests for area-based aid, for 9.2 million hectares. more

04.20.2011

The European Commission on Wednesday has authorized a Romanian state aid scheme with a budget of 1.3 billion lei (EUR1=RON4.0858) which aims to support farmers who face difficulties due to the more