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Moldova: agrarians started grain harvesting

The agrarians in all Moldova regions started grain harvesting campaign. The northern regions started campaign later than others, because grains ripen there 10-12 days longer than in the southern regions. Currently, the capacity of 1-grade grains totals 30 c/ha.

In some areas of the northern regions the agrarians harvest even 42-48 c/ha of grains.

According to Ministry of Agriculture and Food Industry of Moldova, such favorable conditions for grains ripening and harvesting happens once in decade.

The agrarians of Moldova harvested almost half of the yield of the main food crop – wheat, sown at the area of 387.000 ha this year.

The harvesting campaign is successfully being held in four regions, and half of the areas has been already harvested, reported Ministry of Agriculture and Food Industry of Moldova on June 18.

The average crop capacity of wheat totals 36 c/ha.

As a reminder, in 1989 Moldavian agrarians received a record yield – 44 c/ha of milling grains.

So, a bang up year for the agrarian sector of Moldova, eh?

Unfortunately,

Moldova's salary arrears down by 35 million lei

Jul. 18, 2008 / [4947]

Chisinau, 18 July /MOLDPRES/ - Overall salary arrears stood at 80 million lei (5.1 million euros) in June 2008, and decreased by 34.7 million lei against January 2007 and by 9.9 million lei as compared with the arrears registered in December 2007, according to data by the Moldovan Economics and Trade Ministry. The biggest salary arrears are registered in agriculture - 44.5 million lei, industry - 23.6 million lei, including the processing industry - 18.9 million lei. At the same time, 12.4 million lei are arrears of state-owned enterprises, 50.6 million lei of private enterprises and 17 million lei of public/private enterprises. The issue of salary arrears is discussed monthly at the meetings of the National Commission for joint consultations and negotiations, which are attended by leaders of the enterprises with the biggest salary arrears. Currently, the state Labour Inspection service is investigating the reasons for salary arrears and is considering the possibility of closing down insolvent enterprises.