Business Review, The total sales of Romanian meat producer Agricola Bacau reached Ron508.5m (about €119m) in 2011, registering a growth of 20%.
Source: Balkans.com The number of active operators in Romania’s organic farming sector has tripled this year reaching 10,000 and the rise in relevant subsidies might prompt the doubling, by end-2012, of the number of farmers who join the eco-certification system.
Source: Balkans.com Mayer Siegfried, BayWa`s engineering department manager, declared during his meeting with Valeriu Tabara, the Romanian Minister of Agriculture, that BayWa plans to invest in Romania thanks to the high agrarian potential there. The BayWa official said that Romania had a high farming potential, and it must be a priority domain.
Source: Balkans.com Romania is enjoying a bumper grains harvest in 2011/12, with significant gains in the wheat crop and, to a lesser extent, corn. The effects of this dynamic should feed through the rest of the agricultural economy, with livestock and dairy producers likely to benefit from lower feed prices in the remaining months of [...]
Source: Balkan Business News American irrigation systems producer Toro will open a new production facility in Ploiesti, targeting markets in Russia and Ukraine, but also local agriculture. The production plant is located inside Ploiesti West Park and is being developed following an investment of €20m. It will hire 100 employees. On the local market, Toro [...]
27th of October 2011 The British Romanian Consultancy is interested to hear from British businesses looking for opportunities in Romanian Agriculture. For those interested, we could be reached by mobile at 079 201 475 92 or by e-mail: welcome@thebrc.co.uk
Source: Act Media Gabriel Ghelmegeanu, the President of the Romanian-Chinese Chamber of Commerce declared on Thursday that a group of Chinese investors from Anhui Province want to buy or lease croplands in Southern Romania to grow and trade vegetables and fruit. “Five Chinese business people headed by the chairman of the Agriculture Committee of Anhui [...]
Source: Balkan Business News Romania’s PM Emil Boc received at Victoria Palace a delegation of representatives of Sofiproteol Group, with whom he has discussed about investment projects of the group in Romania, the development prospects of biodiesel sector and aspects about the Common Agricultural Policy after 2013. The representatives of the French Group have [...]
Source: Balkans.com Agraria Nord SRL Botosani, controlled by the Austrian investor Gerald Schweighofer, will invest €5m in a grain silo located in the county of Botosani, N-E Romania.The silo will be commissioned in May 2012 and will be located in the village of Draguseni. The investor cultivates 5,000ha in the region. Schweighofer also owns timber [...]
Source: Balkans.com The EBRD is supporting the diversification of Romanian agribusiness with a €30 million syndicated financing package to Expur S.A., a local oilseed processing company. Expur crushes rapeseed and sunflower seed, produces crude rapeseed oil, refined edible sunflower oil, as well as rapeseed meal, sunflower meal and biodiesel, for both domestic and export markets.
