The National Food Agency of Georgia has sealed 2.5 tons of meat at the Batumi produce market, with the Agency revealing on August 22 the move had followed violations of sanitary regulations, identified by professionals. Conditions of meat storage and sale at the relevant facilities were checked in the monitoring, with the state body saying…
Skyrocketing gas and electricity tariffs promise to hurt Baltic countries this winter and possibly drive some poultry farms to bankruptcy. Darius Gudaciauskas, director of Lithuanian poultry companies Vilnius Poultry and Kaisiadoriu Poultry, said that the increased gas and electricity prices in 2022 had hit his business much harder than the Covid-19 pandemic in the previous…
Nearly one out of every three button mushrooms exported globally comes from Poland, a study carried out by the Polish Economic Institute (PIE), a government think-tank, has found. According to the PIE study, in 2021, Poland had a 32% share in the global export of button mushrooms, making it the world leader in this category.…
A tanker has taken 15,000 tons of Ukrainian sunflower oil out of Klaipeda, according to Bega, a stevedoring firm operating at the seaport. The cargo was loaded last week and is one of the largest Ukrainian shipments to depart from Klaipeda, Aloyzas Kuzmarskis, Bega’s board chairman, said on August 16. “This tanker is unique as…
As part of the “grain initiative”, the Brave Commander bulk carrier left the Ukrainian port of Pivdennyi on the morning of August 16 with 23,000 tons of wheat for Ethiopia, the press service of the Ministry of Infrastructure reported on Facebook. “The ship Brave Commander with grain for Africa has left the Pivdennyi port. The…
The leadership of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Industry (MAIA), together with officials of the National Food Safety Agency and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration had a meeting yesterday with Ambassador of the Russian Federation to Chisinau Oleg Vasnetsov. The parties exchanged views on the decision of the Federal Veterinary and…
The Georgian Government will subsidise the 2022 grape harvest due to the “record-high grape yield”, Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili has announced at a Government meeting. Garibashvili pledged “not a single kilogram of grapes will be left behind” in accepting produce from farmers, and added the Government would provide “maximum support” to about 25,000 of them…