Agriculture

The Lithuanian government will not cancel the existing diesel fuel tax exemption for farmers, the country's Agriculture Minister Andrius Palionis says.

VILNIUS, Sep 19, BNS - Agriculture Minister Andrius Palionis is meeting with representatives of two Japanese companies on Thursday to discuss their plans to import Lithuanian products.

Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda welcomed on Tuesday a decision by Andrius Palionis, the new agriculture minister, to set up a working group to review his predecessor's initiative to relocate the Agriculture Ministry from Vilnius to Kaunas.

The Lithuanian government has on Wednesday backed the amendments under consideration by the country's parliament, the Seimas, to allow the use of the whole hemp plant by lifting the existing restriction to grow it only for fiber, seeds, and gardening.

The Lithuanian government on Wednesday has declared a state-level emergency over the ongoing drought's impact on agriculture.

Members of the Lithuanian government will on Wednesday discuss whether the country should back an initiative by some Western European countries to transition to a climate-neutral economy by 2050.

The European Commission will provide €120 million to the EU's beekeeping sector over the next three years to support its essential role in agriculture and the environment. This represents an increase of €12 million compared to the support provided for the period from 2017 to 2019.

Lithuanian Agriculture Minister Giedrius Surplys says signals from Brussels indicate that an agreement with the European Commission on new direct payments to farmers is likely to be reached in late 2020.

Having banned unfair trading practices and improved producer cooperation, the European Commission on Wednesday presented the third element to improve fairness in the food supply chain by introducing greater transparency in the way prices are reported throughout the chain, states the European Commiss...

The European Commission and the European Investment Bank (EIB) launched a €1 billion loans package targeting specifically young farmers. In 2017, 27% of the loan applications submitted to banks by EU young farmers were rejected, compared to only 9% for other farms.

The European Commission (EC) will have to examine the Lithuanian request for assistance in partial compensation of damages incurred by the country's farmers due to heavy rainfall, says commissioner Vytenis Povilas Andriukaitis of Lithuania.

After declaring nationwide emergency situation over heavy rains, the Lithuanian government on Thursday turned to the European Commission (EC) with a request to compensate damages incurred by farmers due to heavy rains.

With Lithuanian farmers' losses due to heavy rains estimated at tens of millions of euros, the Cabinet declared on Wednesday a nationwide emergency situation in a move that will improve the country's chances of securing EU aid and will open the way for using the government's reserve funds.

The Lithuanian government will decide on Wednesday whether or not to declare a nationwide emergency situation after the county's farmers suffered damages estimated at tens of millions of euros due to heavy rains, Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis said on Tuesday morning.

The Lithuanian government's emergency commission proposed on Monday that the Cabinet declare a nationwide emergency situation after farmers suffered damages estimated at tens of millions of euros due to heavy rains that battered the country at the end of the summer.

President Dalia Grybauskaitė says that she has received assurances from European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker that Lithuania will be able to apply for support to its farmers hit by rainy weather.

The Lithuanian government does not have enough money in its reserve to cover farmers' losses due to heavy rainfall, Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis said on Friday.

Preliminary losses incurred by Lithuania's farmers due to heavy rains may total at about 40 million euros, says Agriculture Minister Bronius Markauskas, adding that part of the losses would be covered from the state reserve, with plans to apply for European support.

The Lithuanian government is looking at how to best help farmers affected by heavy rainfall and flooded crops, Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis said on Tuesday.