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Romania’s dairy sector remains dominated by small-size farms. Despite unfavorable market conditions commercial farms are committed to develop further.

Poultry production will likely keep on an upward trend in 2015, though at a slower rate than in 2014. Imports are expected to stagnate, while exports are predicted to slowly recover.

Domestic consumption for beef and pork meat is predicted to continue rising stimulated by abundant supply in the EU on one hand and the fiscal measure reducing the VAT rate for food products.

The new implementation period for a law on poultry feeding will which will impact the Turkish poultry sector starts on January 1, 2016.

In 2014 the total fish catch in Estonia was 67,964 MT, which included the Baltic Sea, long-distance and inland fisheries. The majority of Estonian supplies of fish originate from the Baltic Sea catch.

The Bulgarian dairy industry has experienced its most challenging year in the last 5 years.

This report lists the major export certificates and other requirements expected by the Government of Turkey for exports of food and agricultural products.

MY 2015/16 EU-28 citrus production is forecast at approximately 10.4 MMT, a decrease of 6.7 percent from the previous campaign, mainly due to the lower citrus productions expected in Spain.

Italy is the largest rice producer in the EU-28.

The Italian food-processing industry continues to be highly fragmented, and depends almost entirely on raw material imports, most of which come from other EU countries.

In the UK the retail grocery industry is concentrated with 72 percent market share in the hands of just four supermarket chains.

Again, this year, Italy’s biotechnology industry is characterized as a dynamic and promising sector, despite the difficult economic situation that biotech companies have to confront on a daily basis.