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Romania is going through a period in which the precipitation deficit is significant, and the signals are still that the situation will not change. This agricultural year will be one of the driest in history, says the general director of the…

Farmers are asking the Government, in an open letter, to declare a state of calamity due to severe drought and heat in all areas where more than half of the cultivated area is affected. They claim that there are counties where autumn crops…

OTP Bank Romania pre-finances subsidies for local farmers, granting based on a unique banking product, up to 160% of the value of surface subsidies and estimates for this year an increase in the need for financing for local agriculture,…

Farmers are facing huge problems not only because of the COVID-19 pandemic, but also because of the severe drought jeopardizing their crops. Agriculture minister Adrian Oros told Digi24 that three million hectares of crops are compromised…

The European Commission has requested Romania to review the statistics in the past years regarding the cereals crops, mainly maize. As reported by ‘Romania Journal’ the figures are questioned given that they are higher than the ones in…

Soldiers with the Army’s 2nd Cavalry Regiment began the almost 1,000-mile tactical road march back to Germany Wednesday, hours after battling Romanian “enemies” in an exercise aimed at testing NATO forces’ readiness in the Balkans and Black…

Romania registers nearly 27 million tonnes of cereals this year, exceeding 1.4 tonnes per capita, meaning nine historical records, Agriculture and Rural Development Minister Petre Daea said on Friday. According to him, the crops with high…

Agriculture Minister Petre Daea has said on Thursday, at the National Agricultural Fair in Braila, that Romania could receive by year-end about EUR 3.2 billion for agriculture from the European Union. “Out of the European fund for land,…

Villages on the Somes and Bargau valleys in Bistrita-Nasaud, Transylvania are preserving special traditions and customs during the Holly Week, such as cleaning the doors’ hinges with garlic, buying new clothes or threatening the nut trees.…

Teodosie Petrescu, Archbishop of Tomis, has been placed on Monday under judicial control by the National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA) for 60 days. His Eminency Teodosie is charged with bribe taking and use in bad faith of documents…