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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…

Dutch Hempflax on Friday opened a hemp-processing factory in Alba county, Romania, with the Romanian officials of the Agriculture Ministry, Alba local authorities and Emar Gemmeke, Counsellor for Agriculture, Food and Nature at the…