Abstract:
Tradition and expertise show that Romania is a country with an
agriculture mainly dominated by cereals, which ranked – with few exceptions
– among exporters. Its position among world cereal producers is also
determined by natural conditions favourable to this group of agricultural
crops. The main cereal-producing feature of Romanian agriculture lasted till
our days, the share of cereal crops of the total cultivated arable area between
2001-2006 being of over 58%. The changes in share of cultivated areas with
different cereal species shows both the structural changes that have taken
place in Romania’s agriculture and their influence on technological level, i.e.
capitalising level in agriculture. Grain production is correlated with seeding
surface, but, sometimes paradoxes appear, where even if the cultivated
surface is large the production is low. Year to year, agricultors and
agriculture specialists are confronted with variated problems, most of the
time being impossible to deal with these situations that occur. There are
many explanations: either related to meteorological aspects (repeated
flooding or prolonged drought, high or very low temperatures), or
occurrence of diseases and pests. Therefore, the obtained grain production is
not always determined by the cultivated surface; Situations occur when even
if the cultivated surfaces are large, the productions do not yield the expected
amounts
