The Agency for Investments and Payments in Agriculture (AIPA) announced that it has completed the payment of insurance subsidies (70% of the amount of insurance premiums) for 654 farmer applications received between February 1 and September 30, 2025. The total amount of subsidies to this category for last year amounted to LE 117.08 million.

AIPA rejected only five of the applications submitted by farmers for subsidizing insurance premiums, amounting to 0.03 million lei. Another two applications amounting to 0.02 million lei were suspended. 

The remaining applications from 497 beneficiaries were positively decided. The assets of which sectors of Moldovan agriculture were insured in 2026.

Out of the above-mentioned total amount of applications for subsidies of this category, 177 (total amount of 72,88 million lei) were paid in the year of application, i.e. in 2025. 

Accordingly, and the remaining 470 applications amounting to 43.75 million lei were satisfied this year – (due to the lack of funds in last year’s budget of the National Fund for Support to Agriculture and Rural Areas). 

The largest number of applications for insurance subsidies (about 75% of their total number) came from the livestock sector. However, most of the amount (about 90%) of insurance subsidies was paid in the form of partial compensation of insurance premiums (contributions) under crop insurance contracts. 

In 2026, the following agricultural assets were insured in Moldova: 

– 25,794 ha of field crops (of which: 6,380 ha of sunflower, 7,273 ha of wheat, 37 ha of flax, 926 ha of barley, 56 ha of oats, 2,888 ha of corn, 7,860 ha of rape, 74 ha of radish, 300 ha of sugar beet); 

– 2,081 ha of fruit plantations (of which: 59 ha apricot, 238 ha cherry, 996 ha apple, 3 ha nectarine, 17 ha walnut, 12 ha pear, 5 ha peach, 633 ha plum, 118 ha sour cherry); 

– 3,640 ha of vineyards; 10.50 ha of vegetables (of which: 4 ha of peppers, 4 ha of tomatoes, 2.5 ha of eggplants); 

– 17,2505 animals (of which: 85,390 sheep/goats, 75,976 poultry, 9,872 cows, 1,256 pigs, 11 horses); – 1,090 bee families.

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