Static analysis of the economic efficiency of investments in agriculture in the Republic of Moldova

Abstract

Investments are the main “engines of economic growth”, as they represent powerful revenue-generating and jobcreating resources. In the national economic system, investments represent an accelerator that has the role of multiplying the inputs of material and labour resources, thus leading to an increase in agricultural productivity. Under market economy conditions, the main source of financing investments is the money obtained as a result of the profit derived from the economic activity or other financial means. The economic thinking has been concerned and continues to be concerned more and more with issues of economic efficiency, both in terms of approaching the concept and how to express and identify ways to increase the economic efficiency of different branches, including agriculture. In this paper, the authors investigated dynamically the level of investments in agriculture, determined and analyzed the trend of change, the structure of financing according to the support measures, examined the factors that influence the tendency and the ability of the farmers to make investments. Also, there were determined the static indices in order to assess the economic efficiency and agricultural production of different enterprises situated in the North and Central Development Regions.