Lithuania wants to secure yet another five-year extension of a ban for sale of agricultural land to foreign nationals, the Baltic Business News writes referring to news2biz Lithuania. The current three-year ban expires at the end of April 2013. Earlier farming land was kept away …
US farm equipment manufacturer ‘Kinze’ Manufacturing plans to enter the Lithuanian market, www.15min.lt has informed with reference to the news agency BNS. The US company, which is the world’s leading sowing and planting machinery manufacturer, plans to open a plant in Vilnius region in autumn, …
BNS Lithuania’s State Food and Veterinary Service (VMVT) so far has not found any horsemeat in sausages made by the Lithuanian meat processing company Grimeda. The inspectors of Šilalė Veterinary Service took additional samples of Grimeda’s cold-smoked sausages marketed under the brand name ‘Exclusive’ as …
BNS Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė said on Friday that land speculation must be countered through laws, adding that the threat of speculation “does not necessarily” comes from foreigners. Speculative land purchases and artificial inflating of land prices are already an existing phenomenon in Lithuania, she …
BNS Kazimieras Starkevičius, a Conservative MP and former minister for agriculture, has proposed to the government to consider a possibility to reopen talks with the European Union’s (EU) authorities on the extension of a transitional period for the sale of farm land to the EU …
The European Parliament (EP) has prepared a bill that provides for allotting direct payments to Baltic farmers in an amount equal to that in Romania starting from 2014. The EP will be having a vote about the reform to the Single Agricultural Policy next week. …
Horsemeat instead of beef could have been sold in Lithuania, the State Food and Veterinary Service said. Meat forgery was established in the Latvian company Kursu Zeme, which sold some products in Lithuania. Examinations showed that the canned products sold in Lithuania were of different …
Representatives of Lithuanian farmers said on Friday they were not happy with the transitional period to faster increase of payments envisaged in the new budget of the European Union (EU). Meanwhile, government officials say the provision that the payments will reach 196 euros per hectare …
President Dalia Grybauskaite said that the British prime minister’s threats to veto the European Union’s (EU) budget and hold a referendum on EU membership were merely an attempt to cut the London contribution and make an impression in the run-up to elections. Grybauskaite she didn’t …
On Tuesday, February 5, in their fight for fair European Union (EU) direct payments, Baltic farmers organized a special protest act – the “Baltic way” bonfire, writes bnn-news.com. As part of this protest act, nearly 400 bonfires were lit along the Via Baltica highway. The goal of …
On 7 February more than 100 Baltic farmers will gather in the centre of political Brussels to voice their protest over unequal distribution of agricultural funds and the current Common Agriculture Policy (CAP) bbn-news.com reports. Instead of swinging the pitchfork they will bring one of …
Lithuania will make efforts so as to have the European Union’s (EU) direct payments to the country’s farmers brought in line with the EU average in 2018, two years earlier than currently proposed, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevicius has said. “We discussed that extensively during the …
Lithuania and Azerbaijan have signed an agreement to create a legal framework for cooperation in the field of agriculture, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Agriculture said on Saturday. The document was signed in Berlin by Azerbaijani and Lithuanian Ministers of Agriculture Ismet Abbasov and Vigilijus Jukna. …
Agriculture ministers from Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia have not signed a planned communiqué on elimination of disparities in the European Union’s (EU) direct payments to farmers on the sidelines of International Green Week Berlin 2013. The ministers from three Baltic countries will seek to establish …
Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian farmers will organize a new Baltic chain, lighting up haystacks at roadsides from Tallinn to the Polish border to protest against the European Union’s new common agricultural policy, Aripaev Online reports cited by the Baltic Times. “We will organize a Baltic …
The parliament prolonged the prohibition on selling agricultural and forestry land to foreigners until 30April 2014, reported 15min.lt on 3 November. On Thursday 95 parliament members voted for adequate amendments of the constitution; eight members withheld their judgment. The European Commission extended the prohibition until …
Lithuanian export to Libya decreased significantly this year. Yet this has nothing to do with the civil war in the country. The reason is grain quality, lrytas.lt reported on August 24. In June, commodity export from Lithuania to this North African country was worth 0.2 …
The Lithuania Tribune/Tereza Holanová Lithuania has temporarily restricted its trade in live pigs due to a swine fever outbreak in Jonava district, Reuters news agency has announced. The cases of swine fever have been registered in several farms in central Lithuania. On 2 June the …
It is almost certain that there are no contaminated vegetables infected by an E. coli in Lithuania, the Lithuanian State Food and Veterinary Service said on 30 May. The most of cucumbers sold in Lithuania are grown locally or imported from Poland. Only a little …
What can you buy with 100 litas in Lithuania? It usually doesn’t go very far, especially at the supermarket, but this year prices have risen on basic staples so much that they are pushing families to the limit. Last year 100 litas (29 euros) would …
