Lithuania has already managed to enter the Chinese dairy market and now the representatives of other industries are looking to enter the largest market in the world. Preparations for this are already well under way for companies planning to export beef, grain and animal fodder. […]
Responsibility of Lithuania’s Agriculture Minister Virginija Baltraitienė should be assessed by the Labour Party that delegated her to the post, the board of the ruling Lithuanian Social Democratic Party stated on Tuesday. […]
After the European Commission has greenlit €13 million in subsidies for Lithuanian dairy farmers, the Lithuanian government will add another €11 million that has been promised before, the country’s agriculture minister has said. The ministry […]
In response to particularly difficult situation of Lithuania’s milk producers, the Ministry of Agriculture plans to distribute state subsidies earlier. Milk producers will receive support for 2016 as early as late June or early July. […]
Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius and Iran‘s Deputy Minister for Finance Mohammad Khazaei signed an intergovernmental agreement on economic cooperation yesterday. The two countries will seek to create a favourable investment climate for investors and […]
Lithuanian farmers gave out free milk to people in the centre of Vilnius outside the Ministry of Agriculture yesterday in protest at the low prices they are getting from retailers for their milk. […]
The largest Israeli food industry delegation to date is currently on a visit to Lithuania with 50 Lithuanian companies set to meet with representatives of 13 Israeli companies. Israel is particularly interested in organic, vegetarian, […]
About 3,000 dairy farmers are planning to rally outside the Ministry of Agriculture in Vilnius next week, demanding government assistance amidst collapsing milk prices. […]
Corruption suspicions in several Lithuanian ministries have severely damaged the government’s ratings, a new poll shows. Popularity of Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius and his party, the Social Democrats, has suffered as well. […]
The ministers of environment and agriculture will have to go if they are caught lying about investigations they are currently subject to, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius has suggested on Monday evening after meeting with the president. […]
Agriculture Minister Virginija Baltraitienė has accepted resignation of her deputy Vilius Martusevičius over alleged corruption in the ministry’s food for poor programme. […]
The Prosecutor General‘s Office is to investigate public procurement contracts for the government’s food for poor programme after it emerged that companies picked to supply products offered massively inflated prices. […]
Minister of Agriculture Virginija Baltraitienė might have to explain herself to official ethics watchdogs after it has emerged that the ministry’s food for poor programme awarded a government contract to a company linked to the minister’s party colleague Viktor Uspaskich. […]
President Dalia Grybauskaitė is to have a “serious conversation” with Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius about corruption suspicions that have plagued his cabinet over the last week. The meeting is scheduled for next week, after Butkevičius comes back from vacation. […]
Chinchilla farming is one of the most profitable businesses in Lithuania, according to the Ministry of Agriculture. […]
The former head of the National Land Service, Daiva Gineikaitė, who resigned from the post after a suspected drink-driving incident, told a court on Wednesday she was not intoxicated. […]
The management of Lithuania’s airfields will be entrusted to municipalities after a decision by the government‘s Strategic Committee. However, Interior Minister Saulius Skvernelis said that municipalities would not be forced to take the responsibility for the airfields. […]
Daiva Gineikaitė, the chief of Lithuania’s National Land Service under the Ministry of Agriculture who is suspected of involvement in a drunk driving accident, is stepping down. […]
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