Acting Minister of Agriculture and Food Industry Vasile Bumacov agreed with his Russian counterpart Nicolai Fyodorov to reopen the talks to remove the barriers to the export of Moldovan agrifood products to Russia. The Moldovan official is on a working visit to Berlin, where he is taking part in the International Exhibition “Grune Woche-Berlin 2015” (“Green Week”), IPN reports.

While in Berlin, Vasile Bumacov had a meeting with the Russian Minister of Agriculture Nicolai Fyodorov and the head of the Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance of Russia (Rosselkhoznadzor) Sergey Dankvert. He informed the two officials that Moldova’s exports of agrifood products decreased considerably.

The acting minister also discussed with EU Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development Phil Hogan. The authorities of the EU are ready to further provide support for modernizing the agricultural sector.

In Berlin, Vasile Bumacov had bilateral meetings with the Federal Minister of Food and Agriculture of Germany Christian Schmidt, Polish Minister of Agriculture Marek Sawicki, Romanian Agriculture Minister Daniel Constantin, and Lithuanian Agriculture Minister Virginija Baltraitiene. The discussions centered on the bilateral relations in the agricultural sector and the extension of cooperation in different areas of agriculture and processing industry.