COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE PERFORMANCE OF THE AGRICULTURAL SECTOR IN ROMANIA AND THE OTHER EU MEMBER STATES

Romanian rural economy is dominated by the agricultural sector, whose main characteristic given by the significant portion of subsistence and semi-subsistence farming, producing only for their own consumption and only occasionally marketing a small portion of their output. In this context, rural economy still remains unsatisfactorily integrated into the market economy. In this respect, we performed a comparative analysis of agricultural potential and the productivity of this sector in Romania and European Union countries.