farms

In 2020, there were 9.1 million farms in the EU. This is an estimated 5.3 million fewer farms than in 2005 (the equivalent of a decline of about 37%), reads a latest report by the Eurostat. Romania recorded the most consistent reduction,…

Latvian FinTech startup LANDE has raised a pre-seed round of 550,000 EUR to enter Romania, continuing its expansion in Europe. The round is led by LATBAN, with participation of BADideas.fund and additional investment coming from a Seedrs…

OTP Bank Romania granted a loan amounting to 15 million lei for Nutriva Feed Mill (Fabrica de Nutreţuri Combinate Nutriva) in Vaslui county, while Eximbak has issued a state guarantee which covers 90% of the financing. The guarantee is…

Holde Agri Invest SA, a Romanian agricultural company operating farmland, will launch in June 2020 a new private placement for its shares. It will be the second capital markets operation for Holde, which in December 2019 sold approximately…

IRUM Reghin has launched the first 100% Romanian tractor, designed and built by the engineers of the company, in the year of the Union’s Centennial and 15 years after the closing down of the production of Romanian tractors. The first…

Romania has the best agricultural year in history, with record production of wheat and maize, which lead the agricultural turnover to almost EUR 8 billion, a KeysFin analysis released on Tuesday reads. The figures from Agriculture…

The African swine fever has reached one of the largest farms in Braila County. The virus was confirmed in the pig breeding complex in Tichileşti. More than 35,000 animals will be slaughtered. Representatives of the Sanitary Veterinary…

The African swine fever has spread to 98 localities in eight counties, with a total of 545 outbreaks confirmed, but in the south-eastern part of the country the evolution of the disease is extremely aggressive, according to the information…

Danone Romania has posted positive financial results for 2017, the company has announced on Tuesday, thus enabling it to continue local investments this year. The turnover has mounted to RON 497 million, increasing by 3% as against 2016.…

A little over 171 million hectares of land in the European Union (EU) were used for agricultural production in 2016 – about 40% of the EU's total land area. This supported about 10.3 million farms and farm managers. Although numerous, most…