Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius has met with dairy producers and promised to inform them in two weeks how the state could assist the dairy production cooperative Pienas LT, enhance possibilities for cooperation of farmers and boost competitiveness of Lithuania’s dairy sector. […]
On Friday, the Baltic Assembly‘s (BA) Economics, Energy and Innovations Committee and Natural Resources and Environment Committee will convene in Kaunas to discuss the influence of the Russian embargo and the regulation of genetically modified organisms (GMO) in the Baltic states. […]
The European Commission (EC) has earmarked 12.63 million euros in support to Lithuania’s dairy farmers, who sought a much larger amount of 32 million euros. […]
The European Union‘s (EU) milk producers, including 50 farmers from Lithuania, on Monday will protest in Brussels. Farmers say they incur huge losses due to low milk purchase prices and the Russian embargo and therefore demand an assistance mechanism. […]
The ministers of agriculture of the Baltic States and Poland submitted a joint petition to the European Commissioner in charge of health care and food safety to ease trade restrictions on pig farmers and pork handlers in the African swine fever (ASF) outbreak region. […]
Despite a difficult situation in Lithuania’s milk sector, President Dalia Grybauskaitė says that prices have to be regulated under market conditions rather than artificially. […]
Lithuanian Agriculture Minister Virginija Baltraitienė says that the Baltic states and Poland will not be able to stop the spread of African swine fever (ASF) without additional help from the European Commission. […]
The European Union will continue providing support into next year for farmers hard-hit by the Russian ban on food imports from the EU, the bloc’s executive said Thursday. […]
A meeting between new Ambassador of Iraq to Lithuania, Asaad Sultan Hachim Abu Galal, and representatives of Lithuanian meat processors interested in export opportunities to Iraq was organised at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Monday. […]
The European Commission wants that EU member states themselves decide if to import genetically modified (GM) animal feed, just like they decide if to grow genetically modified organisms (GMO), EU Health and Food Safety Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis said on Thursday. […]
A strategic turn: Agrowill Group launches the development of a business model based on the principle of sustainable and environmentally-friendly organic agricultural production. […]
Lithuania’s Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius on weekend invited China’s Deputy Prime Minister to send experts to check the Lithuanian dairy and meat processing companies before autumn. […]
This week specialists from the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of Japan are visiting Lithuania to examine how food and veterinary control is implemented in the beef sector. Inspection results will determine further negotiations over export of Lithuanian beef and its products to Japan. […]
Good news from Chile has reached manufacturers of milk products this week – an official permission has been granted for them to export their production to this country, Lithuania’s State Food and Veterinary Service (VMVT) reports. […]
Lithuania’s State Food and Veterinary Service (VMVT) has received a confirmation from Brazil‘s Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Food Supply regarding a permit to export Lithuanian cheese Džiugas to Brazil. […]
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė is against the proposal to give priority to local processors to buy timber produced in Lithuanian forests. According to the president, this would not only infringe the competition but would also create exceptional conditions to the major processors. […]
The Seimas Committee on Rural Affairs has addressed the Government asking to ban cultivation of genetically modified organisms (GMO) in Lithuania and thus implement the European Parliament’s and the European Council‘s directive on GMOs. […]
Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius says it is unrealistic to expect that European milk quota regime will be extended, but Lithuanian farmers can expect greater direct payments in the future. […]
Bosnia and Herzegovina opened its market to Lithuanian beef and its products, the Lithuanian Government said. […]
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