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Illustration: a line of tractors parked on a road near a border crossing, during a farmers' protest.
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At Sculeni, the farmers' protest blocked the border crossing on 25 June, reopened only toward evening

The farmers' protest against the rise in agricultural VAT reached the border of Ungheni district on 25 June: farm machinery blocked access to the Sculeni border crossing, along with three other customs points and several national roads. According to the Border Police, traffic at Sculeni was restored only around 6 p.m. It is the official-source confirmation of what we had flagged as possible: the protest touched Ungheni directly.

Ion Calmis·25 June 2026· NewsWHAT'S AT STAKE
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A line of tractors and a combine harvester parked along the shoulder of a national road next to a field of ripe wheat, in summer, a rural landscape in the Republic of Moldova.
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Farmers roll out the tractors tomorrow over an 8% VAT: a Valea Mare grower says the jump to 20% «will be a big minus»

The “Forța Fermierilor” (Farmers' Force) association has called a nationwide protest for Wednesday, 24 June, with agricultural machinery on the country's roads, after talks with the Finance Ministry hit a dead end. The stake: the government wants to raise farm VAT from 8% to 20% starting 1 October. It sounds like a budget line — until a farmer from Valea Mare, Ungheni district, shows what it does to 2,000 hectares of grain. The exact protest locations had not yet been announced; that it would also reach Ungheni district we could not confirm at a primary source.

Ion Calmis·23 June 2026· ExplainerWHAT'S AT STAKE
A field of ripe wheat and an orchard with a tractor on the horizon, in summer, in a rural landscape of the Republic of Moldova.
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17,000 hectares of cereals and farms vanishing from the registers: what the farmers' talk with the PM changes for Ungheni

At the government, Prime Minister Alexandru Munteanu met farmers and spoke about access to finance, seasonal labour, taxation and the insolvency law. It sounds abstract — until you put it on the map of the Ungheni district: nearly 17,000 hectares of cereals, 10,000 of sunflower, a sector grown to 30,000 hectares, yet carried on the backs of small producers. And on the ground, in Pârlița and Măgurele, town halls are recording drought damage and striking inactive farms off the registers.

Ion Calmis·22 June 2026· ExplainerWHAT'S AT STAKE
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An apple orchard on hills at sunset, with rows of young trees and a cold-storage warehouse in the distance.
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Moldova negotiates 150 million euros for orchards and vineyards. How much can a district like Ungheni get, where plantations have thinned

Parliament has cleared the way for negotiations on a new European loan of 150 million euros, «Livada Moldovei II», for horticulture, viticulture and irrigation. The money is plentiful, but it comes as a loan, not a gift — and the first programme absorbed only three quarters of its funds. For the Ungheni district, where the area of orchards has fallen by a fifth in a decade, the real question is not how much is given nationally, but whether the money reaches here too.

Ion Calmis·17 June 2026· ExplainerWHAT'S AT STAKE
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Hillside vineyards at sunset, with a field of ripe wheat and a small farm in the distance
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Farm subsidies 2026–2030: EU-style rules decide who gets the 18.9 billion lei

The government has approved an agricultural subsidy programme for 2026–2030 under which the annual fund grows from 2.3 to 5.3 billion lei. Nearly three quarters of the money goes to investment rather than per-head livestock payments, and the new EU-style conditions require farmers to keep records that many small producers simply don't have. For a farming, largely rural district like Ungheni, the subsidy becomes a tool for modernisation — but also a filter.

Ion Calmis·3 June 2026· ExplainerWHAT'S AT STAKE