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Agriculture : Romania almost completed sunflower and corn sowing
Tuesday, May 10, 2016
Last week, moderately warm weather was observed across all the territory of the country. Average air temperature was within multiyear norms and ranged between +8..+18 ºC. Maximum air temperature rose to +23 ° C, minimum lowered to +3 ° C.Meteorologists forecast that moderate temperature regime will retain in May, but precipitation amount will exceed the norm in some regions of the country. Precipitation deficit is expected only in July, ...
Cars: Passenger vehicle registrations have advanced in all categories in January - March 2016
Tuesday, May 10, 2016
Passenger vehicle registrations have advanced in all categories in January - March 2016, with buses and minibuses leading with a 33.7 percent growth in the first quarter of 2016 as compared to Q1 2015, while registrations of freight vehicles increased by 29.3pct year on year, according to data released on Friday by the National Institute of Statistics ...
Healthcare: Gov't wants the in-depth rehabilitation of health care infrastructure
Tuesday, May 10, 2016
The Government envisages the in-depth rehabilitation of health care infrastructure, and in this line, the feasibility studies for the construction of two new hospitals have been completed: the "Marie Curie" Children's Hospital and the "C.C. Iliescu" Cardiovascular Diseases Institute, the government's spokesman Dan Suciu said on Thursday at ...
Tourism: Tourist accommodation facilities advanced by 12.9 percent year on year Q1 of 2016
Tuesday, May 10, 2016
The overnight stays in tourist accommodation facilities advanced by 12.9 percent year on year in the first quarter of 2016, with 15.5pct more tourist arrivals, according to data released on Thursday by the National Institute of ...
Trade: GfK: in Romania, the retail business grow over the European average
Tuesday, May 3, 2016
The most recent prognoses for 2016 show the fact that there is a positive tendency for the consolidation of the retail business on the markets in the European Union, especially in Romania where, according to a study made by GfK, the estimated growth will be 7%. ‘The consolidation of the retail businesses of last year will continue in 2016. For the EU countries, the growth will be approximately 1%.There will be positive evolutions, especially in ...
Real Estate:Buyers in residential segment prefer apartments near park or underground
Tuesday, May 3, 2016
Buyers in the average and average-plus segment who use dedicated real estate consulting services prefer three-room apartments located in quiet areas, in the vicinity of a park and with underground access, according to a specialized study. In establishing purchase criteria, 60% of buyers included in the study were interested exclusively in areas with underground access. Other compulsory criteria concerned apartment areas. “Buyers have lowest well ...
Tourism: Dental tourism on the rise in Romania
Tuesday, May 3, 2016
The number of people who came to Romania in 2015 to benefit from dental services has doubled according to a clinic network in the Capital, whose business figure comes 10% from dental tourism. The dental tourism phenomenon grew with the development of implant centres, a press release shows. “ A foreigner leaves 4,800 euros on the average in the clinic for complex implant services. Prices in Romania are two-three times lower ...
Telecom.IT : Telekom Romania implements Smart Cities solution in Bucharest park
Tuesday, May 3, 2016
Operator Telekom Romania announced it implemented its first integrated Smart City project in Romania, in Tineretului Park, Children’s City Area, in the 4th district of Bucharest. The pilot project was implemented by Telekom Romania with the support of its technology partner Cisco, which provided the equipment and the integration platform. The value of the contract was not specified, business-review.eu said. “We are currently ...
Agriculture : Romania considerably lowered exports of sunflower oil
Tuesday, May 3, 2016
Decrease of sunflower seed crop in 2015/16 also has its reflection on sunflower seed and sunflower oil export paces from Romaniablackseagrain.net reports. It should be noted that during September -December 2015 sunflower seed exports decreased only by 8.3%, but sunflower oil exports lowered by 34% compared to volumes exported over the same period of last season. High demand for sunflower seed from the world market and strong competition at sunflower ...
Romania interested to participate in the FAO programmes in the Republic of Moldova
Tuesday, May 3, 2016
Romania is interested to participate and get involved in the programmes and projects unfolded by the United Nations Organisation for Food and Agriculture (FAO) in the Republic of Moldova, the more so it will be a member of the FAO Council starting with 30 June 2016 for three years and will hold the presidency of the European Union's Council in the second half of ...
Action plan in agriculture and food industry was signed between Romania and Moldova
Tuesday, May 3, 2016
Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Achim Irimescu and his Moldovan counterpart Eduard Grama signed Tuesday an action plan aimed at the cooperation between the two ministries in agriculture and food ...
Ciolos: Romania could play an important role in the creation of a regional cereal market
Tuesday, May 3, 2016
Romania could play an important role in the creation of a regional cereal market, with negotiation force also on an international level, Prime Minister Dacian Ciolos told a Tuesday's conference on food safety Romanian Banking Institute ...
Healthcare: Report: 23 per cent of the medical units there are no adequate hygiene conditions
Tuesday, May 3, 2016
In 23 per cent of the medical units there are no adequate hygiene conditions, shows a report drawn up following nationwide inspections carried out in January and ...
Cars : Sales of new cars and used ones recorded in Q1 2016 two-digit increases
Tuesday, May 3, 2016
The sales of new cars and used ones recorded in Q1 2016 two-digit increases, and until the year's end the threshold of 275,000 units is expected to be overcome, shows a specialist analysis released on Wednesday by the representatives of an online platform for car sale ...
Infrastructure : Government approved the 2016 revenue and expenditure budgets of the state-owned CFR
Tuesday, May 3, 2016
The government approved in its Wednesday sitting the 2016 revenue and expenditure budgets of the state-owned National Railway Company CFR and of its passenger arm CFR Calatori, the government said in a ...
In 2015, Romania had 86,080 km of public roads, 747 km of which were motorways
Tuesday, May 3, 2016
In 2015, Romania had 86,080 km of public roads, of which only 4.2 percent (747 km) were motorways, and railways in public use were making up 10,770 km, according to data with the National Statistics Institute (INS) released last week. Compared with 2014, motorways increased by 9.4 percent, or 64 ...
Agriculture : Foresters association: Romania only country lacking sustainable forest management
Tuesday, April 26, 2016
The Ministry of Environment, Waters and Forests failed to protect 600,000 hectares of private forests, while Romania is the only country in the world that does not enforce a sustainable forest management, Forest Defence Federation (FAP) chairman Marin Stoicescu said, as some 1,000 foresters were protesting in front of the government offices in ...
In 2015, Romania recorded the largest annual percentage drop in domestic wine consumption
Tuesday, April 26, 2016
In 2015, Romania recorded the largest annual percentage drop in domestic wine consumption (minus 17.3 percent) of all the leading wine-consuming countries, according to an annual report published by the International Organisation of Vine and Wine (OIV) that also says self-consumption, which makes up almost 50 percent of the domestic market, is hard to determine in ...
Romania's oilseed production forecast to rebound
Tuesday, April 26, 2016
Romanian oilseed crop area is forecast to total 1.65 million hectares in marketing year 2016-17, which is almost 8% more than last year, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Foreign Agricultural Service said în a report, quoted by world-grain.com. Oilseed production estimate for market year 2016-17 exceeds 3.5 million tonnes, a 16% increase as compared to previous year. As a result of higher seed availability, total meal production is ...
Trade: Study: 82% of Romania’s urban population consumed meat products in 2015
Tuesday, April 26, 2016
Eight out of ten Romanians consumed meat products in 2015, on the drop compared to data recorded in 2014, while four out of five Romanians declared they bought such products. These are results of a study released on Thursday by the Mercury Research at the congress devoted to meat industry in Romania, organized by “Meat Magazine”. According to Ingrid Lambru, marketing director the research company Mercury Research, 62% of occasional meat ...