Abstract:
Balkan Peninsula is a geographic area with specific natural features and historic, social, political and economic
evolutions. Analyzed territory has an area of 76,601 thou hectares and a population of 65,578 people and includes 10
countries (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, FYROM - Former Yugoslav Republic of
Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia). Agricultural potential of the region is illustrated by 38,435 thou
ha agricultural land and 21,022 thou ha arable land. Range of field crops consists of cereals (55% of arable land, mainly
wheat and barley), oil crops (sunflower, rape, soybean, olive) potato, sugar beet, tobacco, cotton. In the Balkan context,
Romania is characterized by an important agricultural potential, expressed by agricultural and arable land (35.15% and
respectively 41.80% of all Balkan) and is the leading agricultural producer, dominating especially in cereals (35.9% of
the Balkans), oilseeds (44.5% of total) and potato (55.2%). It is estimated that Romania's agricultural potential can be
better exploited, such as Romania to contribute more to cover the consumption of agricultural products for the entire
Balkan region.
