The stage of Romanian agriculture in the context of Romanian’s new status as the member of the European Union

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.