Agriculture

Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) of the Department of Agriculture of the USA published an official offer to include Lithuania into the list of countries from which imports of meat and meat products are permitted and submitted this proposal to public discussion, Lithuania's State Food and Ve...

Due to Russia's food embargo and the beef overstock which resulted because of these restrictions, farmers who grow beef steers and cows lose around LTL 10 million (EUR 2.9 million) of income every month.

Lithuania’s authorities have completed talks on meat exports with the United States’ officials, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius has said, adding that he expects that Lithuanian meat companies will be able to start supplying their products to the US market as early as in the first half of 2015.

Lithuanian farmers will be allocated LTL 11.2 billion (EUR 3.2 billion) for direct payments, but the payment structure will differ, the Ministry of Agriculture says.

A 1,000-ton shipment of butter from Lithuania has got stuck due to Russia’s ban on the transportation of goods to Uzbekistan through Belarus.

Egypt has confirmed to the Lithuanian State Food and Veterinary Service that Lithuanian beef meets the requirements and therefore may be exported to Egypt.

Since 1 December, Lithuania's National Paying Agency paid out LTL 584 million (EUR 169 million) to farmers in direct payment and compensations.

Last week Lithuanian products were introduced in one of the major international food and beverage industry exhibitions SIAL Middle East 2014 in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). A delegation headed by Minister of Agriculture Virginija Baltraitienė visited the UAE. It is hoped...

The National Paying Agency (NMA) under the Ministry of Agriculture is going to distribute transitional national aid to diary producers on 1-2 December.

An average Lithuanian consumes around 25 kilograms of poultry annually, while the rate a decade ago stood at 12 kilograms. Global trends indicate that poultry consumption continues to grow steadily.

Agriculture Minister Virginija Baltraitienė will on Monday remind Brussels of Lithuania’s request for approximately 110 million litas (EUR 32m) for the country’s dairy sector to compensate for losses sustained due to Russia’s sanctions.

Baltic States and Finnish agricultural organizations submitted a repeated appeal for help to the European Commission, LETA/Public Broadcasting reports.

One of animal rights organisations has submitted an official complaint to the European Commission over the adopted amendments to the Law on Animal Welfare which enabled slaughter of animals based on Muslim and Jewish rites without prior stunning.

Specialists, meat processors, representatives of Muslim and Jewish religious groups discussed additional laws needed for the implementation of the law on ritual slaughter of animals that was recently passed by the Lithuanian parliament.

Malsena, major Lithuanian grain processor, has entered into agreement to acquire Balti Veski, one of the most popular food manufacturers and major players in Estonian grain products market.

The European Union (EU) should cover up to 75 percent of Lithuania’s costs in combating African Swine Fever (ASF), Agriculture Minister Virginija Baltraitienė has said, adding that the officials representing the Community’s Member States have agreed to increase financing for Lithuania at the Informa...

Lithuania might soon be allowed to export meat products to the United States of America, the Baltic country's Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius has been informed.

Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius and his delegation are visiting the United States of America (Washington D.C., Pittsburgh, Los Angeles, and Chicago) on 5-13 October.

The European Commission has adopted a new programme for emergency market measures for perishable fruit and vegetables in the wake of the Russian ban on imports of certain EU agricultural products, the EC informs.

African swine fever (ASF) was ascertained after testing samples of a hunted wild boar in Alytus district, the State Food and Veterinary Service (VMVT) has informed. This is the seventh ASF case in wild boar population in Lithuania and second in Alytus district this year detected in wild animals.