Minister of Agriculture

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.

A number of protesting farmers lined their tractors up on Vilnius Gediminas Avenue on Tuesday morning in protest against the long-standing problems of the sector that are not being addressed as they say.

Transit of Ukrainian grain through Lithuania has stopped, says Minister of Agriculture Kęstutis Navickas. Lithuanian and Ukrainian ministers urge the European Commission to contribute to raising Ukrainian grain export volumes through ports of the Baltic States. It is proposed that the European Commi...

Lithuanian Minister of Agriculture Virginija Baltraitienė will establish a commission to carry out an internal investigation into the actions of Daiva Gineikaitė, the director of the National Land Service (NZT) who was accused of having been under the influence of alcohol when she caused a traffic a...

On Friday, the Baltic Assembly's (BA) Economics, Energy and Innovations Committee and Natural Resources and Environment Committee will convene in Kaunas to discuss the influence of the Russian embargo and the regulation of genetically modified organisms (GMO) in the Baltic states.

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...

Minister of Health Vytenis Povilas Andriukaitis says he is surprised by the resignation of his colleague, Minister of Agriculture Vigilijus Jukna. The social democrat claims he is unaware of the reasons but believes they must have been serious.

After Vigilijus Jukna resigned as the Minister of Agriculture, the Labour Party presidium has six candidates to choose from to the position.