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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…

The President of the National Institute of Statistics (INS) Tudorel Andrei says Romania is first in the European Union on the area planted with maize and sunflower. “In Romania there are 3.6 million farms which represent some 30% of…

The value of agricultural production in Romania has decreased by 6.6% in 2015 against 2014, reaching EUR 68.98 billion (approx. EUR 15.32 billion), decrease caused mainly by unfavourable climate conditions, especially drought, the National…