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Agriculture: Romania posts agri-foodstuff trade surplus for first time in nearly 20 years
Tuesday, December 24, 2013
Romania has for the first time in nearly 20 years posted surplus in the trade in agri-foodstuffs, recording more than 3 million euros surplus in the nine months of the year, Agriculture Minister Daniel Constantin has told Agerpres.'Romania has not posted a plus in the agri-foodstuff trade since 1994 and we now already have 3.2 million euros in surplus in nine months. I think we will end 2013 on a plus, given that the current figures relate only three ...
The average Romanian throws away 100 kilos of food per year
Tuesday, December 24, 2013
Food squandering and food waste are major problems of modern world and the annual food waste in Romania stands at five million tonnes, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Daniel Constantin declared on Tuesday in Chisinau, where he participated in informal consultations for the preparation of the upcoming Food and Agriculture Organization Regional Conference for Europe.Globally, 1.3 billion tonnes of food go lost and wasted every year, ...
Cars: Dacia car European sales up 30 pct in November
Tuesday, December 24, 2013
Dacia car European sales (EU plus EFTA) saw a significant advance this November and the market share of the Romanian car manufacturer increased from 2% to 2.6%, according to statistics released on Tuesday by the European Automobile Manufacturers Association (ACEA).Dacia car registrations in Europe last month totaled 25,002 units, standing 30% higher compared to November 2012 (19,238 units), while almost all major car manufacturers saw sales growth: ...
National car park reaches 5.71 million units, more than half older than 10 years
Tuesday, December 24, 2013
Romania's national car park numbered 5.71 million units in end-2012, up 26.8 percent compared with 2007, more than a half being cars older than 10 years, according to data made available by the Directorate for Driving Licenses and Vehicle Registration (DRPCIV).The official situation of the national car park was made available to the public on the DRPCIV website for the first time six years ago, 2007 statistics showing that Romanians owned more than 4.5 ...
Telecom.IT: Half Romanian IT market working with Microsoft technology
Tuesday, December 24, 2013
Half the Romanian IT market is working with Microsoft technology, which means over 400,000 firms, said Marius Filipas, who is responsible for Microsoft Romania servers.'50 percent of the IT market uses Microsoft. There are in the neighbourhood of more than 400,000 firms in Romania working with Microsoft technology. We are connected to everything that happens in the Romanian market', Filipas said.Romanians are well appreciated by Microsoft ...
Fixed-point broadband Internet connections, up by 6.7% in H1 2013
Tuesday, December 24, 2013
The number of fixed-point broadband Internet connections reached 3.8 million in H1 2013, on the rise by 6.7% compared to H1 2012, show the data in the statistical Report on the electronic communications market in Romania, released on Monday by the National Communications Managing and Regulatory Authority /ANCOM/.According to the ANCOM, compared to late 2012, the coverage rate of fixed-point broadband Internet connections per 100 inhabitants is 18.8%, ...
First stage of strategy of transition to digital land television to be closed until October 2014
Tuesday, December 24, 2013
Romania is going to implement a first stage of the Strategy of transition to the digital land television till the end of the second half-year of 2014, nine large towns being included in this stage, the technical manager with the SN Radiocomunicatii SA company, Eugen Brad, told a specialty news conference. 'Romania is the last country in Europe which wishes and has to implement the digital land television. In the past year, the Government has adopted a ...
Infrastructure: Bucharest authorities will support Chisinau in building and rebuilding bridges over Prut River
Tuesday, December 24, 2013
Romania considers the project to rebuild the Iasi-Ungheni-Chisinau railway using the standard European gauge to be a priority, the same as the project for upgrading the cross border Iasi-Ungheni road segment, part of the TEN-T network, and it will also help Chisinau with the building, consolidation works and rebuilding of the bridges over the Prut River, the Romanian Minister of Transport, Ramona Manuescu said in Chisinau.According to a press release ...
Vinci-Strabag-Akor Association wins tender for construction works of Comarnic-Brasov
Tuesday, December 24, 2013
Prime Minister Victor Ponta on Thursday announced that the Vinci-Strabag-Akor Association was the winner of the tender for the construction works of the motorway segment Comarnic (southern Romania)-Brasov (central).Submitting bids for winning the 'The public works concession agreement regarding the design, building, financing, operation and maintenance of the Bucharest-Brasov Motorway, the Comarnic-Brasov segment, from km 110+600 - km 168+600' were the ...
Tourism: Three new ski slopes to be opened at Garana, Semenic Mountains
Tuesday, December 24, 2013
Three new ski slopes will open for this season in Semenic Mountains (southwestern Romania), at Garana on a nearly two-hectare area, with their opening now pending the completion of the tests and getting the last authorizations.Three slopes have been arranged at Garana, two for skiing, of 500 and 600 metres respectively and one for snowboarding. The slopes have average difficulty and climbing is by skilift. The snow-park will have three difficulty rates ...
Minister Maria Grapini: Number of foreign tourists in Romania could grow 50 percent in 2014
Tuesday, December 24, 2013
The number of foreign tourists in Romania could grow 50 percent in 2014, by making more flexible the visa granting to citizens outside the European Union, but having visas for the Schengen area, Minister Delegate for SMEs, Business Environment and Tourism Maria Grapini pointed out on Thursday, December 19, in a conference on the presentation of the activity in 2013.'In 2014, we shall also open a tourism office in Japan, a country with a great potential ...
600-sqm ice rink in Sinaia, ski runs opened in Busteni, Azuga
Tuesday, December 24, 2013
An ice rink covering 600 square metres opened in the mountain resort of Sinaia (148 km north of the capital), while in the nearby resorts of Busteni and Azuga the winter sport fans will be able to ski, Sinaia Town Hall has announced.The mobile skating rink, to stay opened till March, has lighting and sound equipment and is open from 9 a.m. till 11 p.m.'Skating, besides skiing, gives us that beautiful feeling that we are flying! I love ...
Agriculture: Commission to recover €335 million of CAP expenditure from the Member States
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
A total of €335 million of EU agricultural policy funds, unduly spent by Member States, is being claimed back by the European Commission today under the so-called clearance of accounts procedure. However, because some of these amounts have already been recovered from the Member States the financial impact of today's decision will be some €304 million. This money returns to the EU budget because of non-compliance with EU rules or inadequate control procedures on ...
Owners of irrigation systems will be able to access 325 m euros from EU in the next four years
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
The associations of owners of irrigation systems are given the chance to access European funds worth 325 million euros in the next four years, Valentin Apostol, director at the Ministry of Agriculture, told a conference focusing Romania's reindustrialisation process.'We must replace some 500 pumping sets. The irrigation organisations will submit their application to the Ministry of Agriculture and we will made all these data public. There will be selected those ...
Culture of certified seed maize, reintroduced in country's north-east
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
The culture of seed maize through lots of hybridization will be reintroduced as of 2014 in Suceava County (north-east), after almost 20 years, due to the openness shown by the authorised business operators to this traditional culture in the area, the Suceava Territorial Inspectorate for Quality of Seeds and Planting Material (ITCSMS)'s Director Vasile Costan told ...
Romania has nearly a third of EU-27 agricultural holdings – statistics
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
There are as many as 3.859 million agricultural holdings in Romania, accounting for 31.5 percent of the number of agricultural holdings in the EU-27 (the European Union less Croatia - editor's note), the National Institute for Statistics senior head Ion Florescu told a meeting unveiling such results on Thursday.Florescu, who heads the Institute's Economic Statistics Directorate added the agricultural area used in Romania as an agricultural holding totals 3.45 ...
The Netherlands and Romania are first in EU when it comes to increase in farmers' income in 2013
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
The Romanian farmers' real income has grown this year by 10.4 percent from 2012. This is the second big advance of all the European Union member states, whereas, in the entire community bloc, the real incomes went down by 1.3 percent in 2013 after a 0.3 percent increase in 2012, say the preliminary data presented by Eurostat on Friday. ...
Infrastructure: Oprescu: A Bucharest-Danube canal will boost economy in the entire region
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
The Bucharest-Danube canal is an integrated project must likely to boost the economy of the entire region, general mayor of Bucharest, Sorin Oprescu, told the conference ‘Building the Urban Future of the Danube Region', held in Vienna.According to a release of the City Hall, he said that this project will make from the Lower Danube one of the most attractive and efficient regions of Europe.‘A special project, but ...
Iasi airport informs of 40 percent growth of passenger traffic in November from 2012
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
The International Airport of Iasi (eastern Romania) informs in a release it sent to Agerpres on Saturday that in November there was a 40 percent growth of the passenger traffic from the same time span of last year.Thus, in November last year there were 18,600 passengers who got on and off the planes at the Iasi airport from 13.200 passengers in November 2012, with a 40 ...
Electric train Hyperion tested at Softronic Craiova
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
Craiova-based (southern Romania) Softronic has built the first electric train in Romania, Hyperion, following investments amounting to 3 million euros. The train can reach a maximum speed of 160 km an hour, according to economica.net.The engineers in Craiova named the rail car Hyperion. The 3 million euros that were used to complete this project were non-reimbursable EU ...