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Minister of Agriculture: Payments for de minimis aid granted to drought-hit farmers to be made in November
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
Minister of Agriculture Daniel Constantin, present on Tuesday in Ialomita County, said that the bill on the de minimis grant granted to farmers whose land was hit by drought will be included in the agenda of the Government on Saturday, September 1.'The government resolution on aiding those who have between one and ten hectares and who were affected by drought will most likely pass during the Saturday meeting on September 1, and then the farmers will submit their ...
Romania's agricultural trade deficit, down 47.5pct Jan.-May, 2012
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
Romania's agricultural trade deficit declined 47.5 percent in the first five months of 2012, to 318.04 million euros, compared with 606.7 million euros in the first five months of 2011, according to data released by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.Romania's intra and extra-community agricultural trade exceeded 1.46 billion euros as of end-May 2012, with maize, wheat and cigarettes having grossed out the most.While in the first five ...
Romania could become emblematic of non-GM soybean production
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
The ‘Danube Soya' project for the production of non-GM soybean in the Danube Basin represents a unique opportunity for Romania, as it could provide annually at least 600,000 tonnes of fodder shrot, says Gabriel Paun, president of the environmental organization ‘Agent Green' in a release to Agerpres.'Europe has grown dependent on protein imported from America where the rainforest is being felled on immense surfaces, especially in the Amazon region, to ...
Trade :Agriculture Minister: Every supermarket in Romania should reserve shelf space for local products
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Minister of Agriculture Daniel Constantin said on Friday in Sibiu (central Romania) at the meeting with the producers that he wants to oblige the Romanian hypermarkets to reserve shelf space for the local products, in order for the Romanian products to be better promoted.'We must find the local products on the shelves of every supermarket and hypermarket in Romania. (...) But we can oblige them to reserve a special shelf space for the local products,' Daniel ...
Romania exports 35,543 tonnes of mineral water in first 4 months of 2012
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
The exports of natural mineral and carbonated water to the EU market and to third nations totaled 35,543.4 tonnes in the first four months of this year, up by 6.2% compared with the same period in 2011 (33,465.7 tonnes), according to the data released by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MADR).The proceeds from these exports rose by 17%, from 12.958 million euros in the first four months of 2011, to 15.15 million euros at end-April ...
Romania receives 69 mln euros from exports of livestock, poultry in first four months of 2012
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Romania received almost 69 million euros in the first four months of 2012 from the exports of livestock and poultry, the sum representing a 5% increase compared with the same period in 2011, when these exports totaled 63.57 million euros, according to the data released by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MADR). Thus, in the first four months of 2012, as many as 30,015.2 tonnes of livestock and poultry were sold on the EU and extra-EU market, mostly ...
Agriculture : Romania to halve wheat export in wake of drought, agriculture minister says
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
The droughty span will nearly halve the wheat quantity Romania will export this year, namely shipments will be cut to 1.3 million tons from 2 million tons it shipped in 2011, Agriculture Minister Daniel Constantin announced at a news conference in central Sibiu on Friday.'Estimates made so far show this year we'll export around 1.3 million tons out of 4.7 million tons of overall production. The last three years' average was 5.3 million tons (of total production - ...
Romania harvests some six million tons of grain in summer
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
The grain production harvested in this summer totalled close to six million tons, with over 80 percent of it or 4.78 million tons being wheat crop, show figures unveiled by the officials of the Agriculture and Rural Development Ministry on Friday.'The wheat crop this year totalled 4.78 million tons, autumn and spring barley together with the two-row barley totalled 985,000 tons and rape-seed only 175,000 tons. Although the wheat production is of a smaller quantity ...
Healthcare : Clawback fee - smaller, to be applied starting on October 1, 2012
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Clawback fee will be applied starting on October 1 and will be smaller, Public Finance Minister Florin Georgescu said at the end of the Government meeting on Thursday.'The fee was revised down, from over 30 percent to over 20 percent. The clawback fee will come into force starting in the fourth quarter, starting on October 1. We had multiple meetings with the medicine producers, with importers, with those in trading, and we reached a reasonable understanding, for ...
Romania consumes more television than Western Europe
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Lecturer Ion Stavre of the National School of Political and Administrative Studies of Bucharest (SNSPA) told a news conference at the opening of the SIMFEST festival of local television channels and independent television producers in Tirgu Mures that Romania consumes more television than Western Europe and has more radio and television broadcasting licences than the US.Stavre said that television channels in Romania are faced with a big dilemma between what the ...
Tourism : Over 130 cruise ships tour Danube Delta since early this year
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Over 130 river and sea cruise ships arrived since the beginning of the year in the Danube Delta, the Tulcea Port Zonal Master's Office announced, adding that the Danube traffic was carrying on smoothly within county boundaries.'Up until now, 127 river and 7 sea cruise ships carrying about 12,000 -13,000 passengers arrived in Tulcea county. For the time being, the Danube is at navigable levels within county boundaries and ship trips to the Delta go on smoothly,' ...
TUI and ITS, two big travel agencies will withdraw from Romania
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Two of the biggest world travel agencies, TUI and ITS intend to stop sending tourists to Romania, dissatisfied by the lack of promotion in the German market and Romania’s image abroad, deteriorated by the latest political situation.“The two groups intend to withdraw because promises made by MDRT have not been honoured. Among them there were promises for investments of 3 million euro to promote Romania in Germany in the next two years and nothing has ...
Real estate : Southern Bucharest 67% cheaper for rentals than northern area
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Rents in areas like Ferentari, Berceni or Giurgiului is up to 67% cheaper than in the northern part of the Capital in Baneasa, Herastrau or Floreasca, according to the report of Anunturiparticulari.ro. Statistics show a lower level of average rents requested by landlords. In July 2012, the lowest average rent levels were reached since 2007, with drops of over 40% compared to July ...
Darian Report: Price of old apartments on the drop
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Average transaction prices for old apartments are similar in Bucharest and Cluj Napoca, but the trend is on the drop, although the dropping rate has slowed down. Darian consulting company for evaluation made a report of the residential market in the first quarter of the fourth crisis year. As of the first semester of 2011, the company has calculated an index that represents the average transaction price of five markets: new and old apartments, lands, offices, ...
Cars : DRPCIV statistics: VW, Dacia and Skoda in top of registrations
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
About 1500 cars were registered in the first part of August, most of them being Volkswagen, according to statistics of DRPCIV. According to official data, of the 1495 new registrations, 273 were Volkswagen, 240 Dacia and 206 Skoda. 93 Ford cars were registered in August 2012 from the local production. As for rare cars, there were 6 Jaguars, 4 Porsche units, 3 Lexus and Jeep, 2 Ferrari and Mini cars and 1 Infiniti. Expensive cars registered included 61 Audi, 47 ...
Real Estate: The ESOP study says the cheapest rents in office buildings are found in the south of Bucharest
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
The most expensive rents for office space found in the business centres are in the centre and north of Bucharest, according to a study made by ESOP Consulting. The cheapest rents for the same sector could be found in the south, in areas such as 13 Septembrie, Budapesta, Cosbuc, Maria Rosetti, Timpuri Noi, Drumul Sarii, Berceni, Tineretului, Oltenitei, Calea Vacaresti, Marasesti, Calea Rahovei.In the case of ...
Telecom.IT : Number of Romanian Facebook users nears 5 mln
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
The number of Romanians who use the social network Facebook has neared 5 million in August, of whom over 4.4 million had set their residing town when they created their account on the social network, show portal Facebrands.ro's statistics.According to the quoted data, there are currently 4,947,720 Facebook users in Romania, namely 23.05% of population and 57.68% of Web surfers.In terms of age and gender criteria, most of these people are in the age ...
Local mobile phone and smartphone market at EUR 53 ml in Q2
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
The value of the local mobile phone and smartphone market inched up 0.7 pct in the second quarter of 2012 from the same period of 2011, to a total of 43 million euros, GfK Temax Romania announced.Smartphone sales keep on rising and push the Telecom sector on an upward trend, reveals the GfK survey.According to the cited GfK survey, the IT market was relatively stable in the second quarter of 2012. The sector decreased 2% compared to same ...
Facebook, YouTube and YM mobile apps, preferred by Romanian youth
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
The most common web applications run on handheld devices by Romanian young people are Facebook, YouTube and Yahoo! Messenger, reveals a survey conducted by EuroGsm, the major retailer of the telecom operator Orange Romania.According to data, the Romanian young people prove major consumers of smart phoning and rule out purchasing a phone device without access to Internet and social networks.As regards the applications most run by young people on mobile ...
Cars : New vehicle registrations slide by 24 pct this July
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Registrations of new vehicles fell by over 24 percent in July down to 8,300 units, compared to the same month of 2011, with most registrations being reported in cars, namely 6,005 units (minus 29.36 percent), reveal the statistics of the Driving Licenses and Vehicle Registration Department (DRPCIV).According to the above-quoted source, 8,300 new vehicles have been registered in July, the equivalent of a 24.01 percent decline compared to the same interval of the ...