Agriculture

The average purchase price of raw milk in Lithuania stood at EUR 0.42 per kilogramme in March 2024, an increase of 10.8% year-on-year. Compared with February 2024, raw milk purchase price rose by 0.3%.

According to the State Border Guard Service (VSAT), Polish farmers’ protest has ended at the Budzisko-Kalvarija border checkpoint, at the border with Lithuania.

The Ministry of Agriculture has announced that it has promptly taken measures to tighten the control of grain transported from Russia and other high-risk countries amid reports that Russia may be exporting grain seized in occupied territories of Ukraine through Baltic Sea ports.

President Gitanas Nausėda welcomes the proposal of a group of MPs to ban the import of agricultural goods and feed originating in Russia or Belarus.

A group of MPs from various political groups proposes suspending imports to Lithuania of agricultural products and feed whose country of origin is Russia or Belarus.

Polish farmers, discontent over the European Green Deal and cheap Ukrainian grain imports, on Friday started a partial blockade of a motorway between Budzisko village in Poland and Kalvarija city in Lithuania. Polish farmers’ protest campaign is expected to last for a week and they intend to check h...

Lithuanian farmers held protests in January over the situation in the agricultural sector. At first, they burned bonfires on their land and later travelled in their tractors to protest in the capital Vilnius. The Government promised to solve a number of issues in agriculture, but now farmers may sta...

In January 2023, AUGA Tech obtained a patent in the USA for the structure of the AUGA M1 biomethane and electric-powered tractor for large farms. The company, which the AUGA group indirectly controls, has applied for patents in other strategic markets as well. AUGA Tech considers the patent to be an...

Farmers in their tractors are gradually leaving Vilnius on Friday as their protest has come to an end. The vehicles have already left Gediminas Avenue escorted by the police in the city, organisers say.

On Thursday, farmers protesting in Vilnius over agricultural policies met with the prime minister. Their protest, which has lasted for three days, is due to end on Thursday at 4 p.m.

The organiser of the farmers’ protest says Seimas Speaker Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen has pledged an urgent procedure to address part of farmers’ demands in the parliamentary spring session.

President Gitanas Nausėda has delegated his chief adviser, Jarek Niewierowicz, to meet with protesting farmers due to his own busy agenda including meetings outside Vilnius.

On Wednesday, Minister of Agriculture Kęstutis Navickas and Minister of Environment Simonas Gentvilas spoke to farmers who were holding a three-day protest in Vilnius and arrived at the capital with their tractors a day earlier.

Farmers on Wednesday started their rally outside the Government in protest against the recent agricultural policy after driving their tractors to Vilnius centre from across the country a day earlier.

Farmers on Tuesday are set to gather in Vilnius for a days-long protest campaign. Protesters are bringing their agricultural machinery and will hold a rally outside the Government on Wednesday, said the Lithuanian Agriculture Council, the organizer.

Latvian President Edgars Rinkēvičs on Monday met with Agriculture Minister Didzis Šmits to discuss current issues in the agricultural sector in Latvia and assistance to Ukraine, the presidency reports.

The National Crisis Management Centre has decided not to propose the Government to declare a national emergency over drought for the time being.

Direct EU payments to Lithuanian farmers in 2021-2027 should be capped at 100,000 euros, Agriculture Minister Andrius Palionis says, adding that they will be 50,000 lower compared to the existing financial perspective.

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.