Subsistence agriculture in Romania- a modus vivendi?

The paper intends to make an analysis at regional level in the South-East region of the country in order to determine the present situation of agriculture in this region compared to the whole country. The paper investigates the crop structure, the irrigated area and the number of irrigation equipment in the region, the market orientation of farms, the type and development level of the non-agricultural activities, the labour force, and the specialization of farms. The objective of this paper is to analyze the regional agricultural characteristics and to determine the level of entrepreneurship in the area, so that farmers and regional policies might better interfere in order to help farmers adjust their production to the market and obtain a benefit. A comparison with the situation at the whole country will be also provided. The paper concludes that Romanian subsistence agriculture is still a “modus vivendi”, and most likely only time and the force of new technologies employed by the large commercial companies will partly solve the issue.subsistence, regional analysis, irrigations, Community/Rural/Urban Development, Consumer/Household Economics,

Vegetable consumption in Romania correlations with purchasing power and supply

The paper makes an analysis of socio-economic factors that influence food consumption levels in terms of income evolution at regional level and also a comparison with EU average and several regions from Poland; it also presents the dispersion of regional GDP per inhabitant and its influence on consumption taking into account the level of polarization among several EU countries. The research analyses the level of expenditure per household in Romania; in addition comparisons with EU countries are made along with the structure of total average expenditure per person per month at macro region development levels in Romania. An in depth analysis is dedicated to the level of expenditures for vegetables and tinned vegetables and the structure of expenditure on the purchasing power for various types of vegetables by regions and social categories. The results show a quite high level of income dedicated for consumption and important disparities among social categories as far as the vegetable consumption is concerned. Also there is a high polarization among the EU countries concerning the income dispersion and its impact on vegetable consumption

The impact of cuppled support on tomatoes and cucumbers for processing cultivated in fiels

The paper presents the impact of the coupled support on tomatoes and cucumbers cultivated in filed in Romania. In this study a detailed analysis is made regarding the coupled support received in the period 2015-2018 for the following products: field cucumbers and tomatoes for processing The main indicators used refer to the evolution of cultivated areas, both in field and in greenhouses and plastic tunnels, the evolution of productions and yields, of prices and trade balance. The paper also presents an analysis of the evolution of the number of farmers who received coupled support, of the areas entitled to payment and of the coupled support calculated per hectare in territorial profile. The analysis is based on data provided by the Agency for Payments and Intervention in Agriculture and the National Institute of Statistics. The results reveal a low impact of the coupled support on the main analysed indicators, as well as the lack of consistency in the support provided in the investigated period

The evolution of the Romanian vegetable trade in the world context

The paper aims to study the reaction of the Romanian vegetable sector to the disruption of trade flows due to the Covid-19 pandemic, analysing the evolution of the trade of the main vegetable products in the last decade in Romania and making comparisons with the most important vegetable producing countries both within the EU and outside the EU. The study also makes a brief analysis of world trade, in which the main trends, its size and perspectives are analysed at global level. Short-term global forecasts anticipate a further increase in vegetable consumption, but at the same time signal many uncertainties related to the evolution of energy and gas prices, as well as the increasingly manifestation of a new actor, namely climate change. In this context, the results reveal that Romania remains a net importer of vegetables. The negative trade balance deepened continuously during the analysed period, the deficit increasing and exceeding 400 million euros in 2019

FARMERS’ CHOICES IN THE VEGETABLE SUPPLY CHAIN: PROBLEMS AND POSSIBILITIES

The dynamics of the agri-food systems plays an important role in the development and the fast increase of the number of modern retail stores. Several driving factors contribute to this situation such as industrialization, globalization and multinational systems, foreign direct investments. The purpose of this paper was to investigate the marketing relationship type of small vegetable farms and to find out the marketing choice of the farmers. In this regard, a qualitative and quantitative analysis was employed using Williamson’s governance structure and probit models. The results confirm that the marketing choice is very limited especially with regard to their participation in retail chains. The obtained coefficients have the expected signs and show that small farmers prefer to sell individually due to several constraints: high entry costs, scale factors and even price mechanisms.testing hypothesis, vegetable farms, retail chains.

Subsistence agriculture in Romania- a modus vivendi?

The paper intends to make an analysis at regional level in the South-East region of the country in order to determine the present situation of agriculture in this region compared to the whole country. The paper investigates the crop structure, the irrigated area and the number of irrigation equipment in the region, the market orientation of farms, the type and development level of the non-agricultural activities, the labour force, and the specialization of farms. The objective of this paper is to analyze the regional agricultural characteristics and to determine the level of entrepreneurship in the area, so that farmers and regional policies might better interfere in order to help farmers adjust their production to the market and obtain a benefit. A comparison with the situation at the whole country will be also provided. The paper concludes that Romanian subsistence agriculture is still a “modus vivendi”, and most likely only time and the force of new technologies employed by the large commercial companies will partly solve the issue

ROMANIAN AGRICULTURE FROM SURVIVAL TO BUSINESS

The paper intends to make an analysis at regional level in the South-East Region of the country in order to determine the present situation of agriculture in this region compared to the whole country. The paper investigates the crop structure, the irrigated area and the number of irrigation equipment in the region, the market orientation of farms, the type and development level of the non-agricultural activities, the labour force, and the specialization of farms. The objective of this paper is to analyze the regional agricultural characteristics and to determine the level of entrepreneurship in the area, so that farmers and regional policies might better interfere in order to help farmers adjust their production to the market and obtain a benefit. A comparison with the situation at the whole country will be also provided. The paper concludes that Romanian subsistence agriculture is still a “modus vivendi”, and most likely only time and the force of new technologies employed by the large commercial companies will partly solve the issue.crop structure, subsistence agriculture, irrigation, regional analysis

Are the collective actions in the Romanian fruits and vegetable sector a mean to access the retail chains?

The agricultural sector – in particular, the fruits and vegetable sector – finds itself in a relatively weak negotiation position due to the low level of concentration from which farmers approach the market. This is a weakness that can only be overcome by resorting to collective actions, i.e. the creation of producer organizations (POs) and producers groups (PGs). The concentration of supply of POs is quite different in the member countries, Romania having about 1% of production concentrated by producers groups and producers organizations. In this paper it is analysed the production (area, yield, number and size of fruits and vegetable farms) and the supply chain of fruit and vegetable sector in Romania. In addition the paper concentrates on the historical development of the POs and the role of the POs of the fruit and vegetable sector. It is important to clarify the impact of changes of the regulatory framework and the impact of the minimum requirements of the POs (minimum number of members, minimum value of marketed production) and the performance of producers and organizations groups

Regional challenges on the South-East Romanian agricultural market

The present paper intends to make an analysis at regional level, respectively in Galati county, in order to determine the present situation of agriculture in the South-East region of Romania; it investigates the possibility of changing the crop structure towards more added value such as vegetables and energy crops (rapeseed, maize) in the region which better respond to the irrigation use. The paper reveals the situation of the irrigation system and the willingness of farmers in the region to pay for irrigations taking into consideration the gross margin value calculated by the main cultivated crops and the type of farms in the respective region. The main investigated aspects are the number of farms and their type, the ownership structure and the degree of land fragmentation, the utilized agricultural area by type of farms, the farm size. At the same time, the paper investigates the crop structure, the irrigated area and the number of irrigation equipment, the number of agricultural machinery and equipment, the market orientation of farms, the type and development level of the non-agricultural activities in the respective county and the specialization of farms in the South-East region of Romania