The head of the Agricultural and Food Market Regulation Agency (ŽŪMPRRA) has handed in her resignation after media reports revealed the agency knowingly overpaid for products in a food for poor programme.
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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.
Daiva Gineikaitė, head of the National Land Service (NZT) under the Ministry of Agriculture, has been temporarily placed on unpaid leave pending the results of an investigation into whether or not she was driving under the influence of alcohol when she caused a traffic accident in Kaunas, Lithuania'...
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.
The Lithuanian and Israeli businesspeople, diaspora members and people interested in fostering relations with Lithuania will meet for the seventh time this October in the World Lithuanian Economic Forum.
Trade with Iran accounts for a fair amount of the Lithuanian foreign trade in agricultural products. Last year, it went up by 9.5 percent.
Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius is visiting Klaipėda on Monday. He says that Klaipėda University and companies located at the seaside must cooperate and contribute to the development of Lithuania's maritime sector.
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.
The State Plant Service under the Ministry of Agriculture, which is responsible for monitoring crops and crop products, carried out 102,096 inspections in 2014 and found 1,184 violations. Nevertheless, genetically modified crops or crop products were not found to be grown or brought to Lithuania.
According to the data of the end of December 2014, EUR 2 billion or 90 percent of financial support of the Rural Development Programme for 2007-2013 (RDP) were already paid to Lithuanian beneficiaries.
A court in the Russian city of Murmansk on Friday slammed the captain of the detained Lithuanian fishing vessel, the Jūros Vilkas (Sea Wolf), with a fine of 4 million roubles (around EUR 59,000), representatives of the ship's owner, Arctic Fishing, told BNS.
A court in the Russian city of Murmansk has ordered additional evaluation of the catch of the detained Lithuanian fishing vessel, the Jūros Vilkas (Sea Wolf), and is due to announce its decision in an administrative case on a violation of the country's fishing rules next week.
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.
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.
A Russian court on Friday adjourned the hearing of the case of Lithuanian fishing vessel Jūros Vilkas (Sea Wolf) detained by Russia in September, the owner's lawyer Vladimir Odiagailo told BNS on Friday. They case will be heard again in a month.
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.
