Agriculture

The Company Alita is counting the fifth decade of its activity. Today, being the leader in the production of alcoholic beverages in Lithuania, it feels responsibility and the binding status. The Company’s exceptional value is a combination of modernism and traditions applied in all spheres of the ...

Among two surimi producers in the world and that top are certainly best known in Europe, the name Vičiūnai has become the synonym of surimi products. When the Company was founded in 1991 probably, no one could imagine that it would of its become one of the largest and most modern seafood companies ...

Financial analysts of Lithuania state in unison the following: agriculture is most resistant to the crisis. The industrial and building sector have drastically declined due to the economic crisis; however, farmers did not experience such cataclysms. Why? Leader in economics In 2009, the gross domestic ...

In autumn, the European farmers will have something to envy the Lithuanian corn growers. A new procedure for granting loans to be started in September will help Lithuanian farmers receive a loan faster and easier and with the rate of interest that is lower than that of the market. Lithuania is the first ...

Horse racing is gaining in popularity in Lithuania. Individual enthusiasts of this kind of sports grudge neither time nor money to make Lithuania prominent in the world of sport horse breeding. One of such enthusiasts is Gediminas Gutkauskas, manager of the largest private sport horse club Miraþas ...

The support of the European Fisheries Fund to fishermen will enable them to survive easier during the time of the crisis. Today the rational use of this assistance funds is one of the major priorities. Of no less importance to Lithuanian fishermen are the guidelines for the European fishery policy to ...

It is ever more often that Lithuanian fishes are found on the table of the Westerners. Fishes are raised naturally in the reservoirs of Daugų žuvis UAB, one of the largest exporters of fish in Lithuania, therefore they are more delicious and healthier. The first fishes from the Daugai reservoirs were ...

Lithuania’s agriculture is an excellent media for creating renewable energy sources. Therefore more attention and greater support are going to be given to it. Climate changes, requirements of the European Union and Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant, which is going to be decommissioned soon, make us ...

The Lithuanian and the horse are inseparable. In all times a horse was both a friend and a helper to a Lithuanian. Even today, when driving across Lithuania, alongside powerful tractors one can see a farmer toiling together with his horse in the fields. And next to a more beautiful homestead one can ...

By purchasing food products, every buyer hopes that they are safe and of high quality. Consumers who buy cheaper products in illegal trade spots, pose a risk to their health and the health of their relatives, because the conditions of production, acquisition, storage, transportation of these products ...

The Minister of Agriculture Kazys Starkevičius met with the His Excellency the U.S. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in Lithuania John Albert Cloud JR. “You have a great responsibility to lead the Ministry in this difficult economic period. I wish you the greatest success, good works ...

“Lithuania’s agriculture and manufacturing industry is the propeller of the country’s economy creating almost 8 per cent of our Gross Domestic Product, providing every eighth Lithuanian with employment and accounting for 16 per cent of total export of the country”, underlined ...