Abstract:
Romania, with its new status as a Member State of the European
Union will be able to access, its specific financing forms, beginning with 1
January 2007. Agriculture is one of the economic branches whose financing
requirement is stringent as this sector though it has interest (and with
tradition across Europe) for Romanian economy, it has not received political
and economic actions in order to really sustain its development. The
agricultural sector may provide Romania a real competitive advantage
across Europe, Romania being alongside countries as France, Germany, one
of the countries with a high agricultural potential.
At present, Romanian agriculture has certain characteristics related
to: real absorption capability of structural funds of this sector, work force in
agriculture is aged, arable in operation is structured in a very high number
of small farms, infrastructure and outfit with farm equipment is minimum
directly resulting a low productivity of this sector, livestock’s, production of
main produce per capita as well as most vegetal production have a
downward trend in 1990 - 2005, lack of Romanian produce competitiveness
internationally, lack of a coherent national agricultural policy etc.
The paper suggests a short analysis concerning the development of the
main indicators related to agricultural sector in Romania in 1990 - 2006 and
identified the general trends, which characterize this sector at the moment of
Romania adhesion to the European Union.
