EFFICIENCY AND TERRITORIAL GAPS IN RESOURCE UTILIZATION IN CROP PRODUCTION

The use and combination of the available resources in the formation of the gross crop production in Romania in the past two decades reflects the existence of visible gaps and disparities at local level, across macro-regions and development regions respectively. The efficiency inflows in the use of production factors have had a negative effect not only on the level of value added but mainly in meeting the domestic needs and enhancing foreign trade flows. Addressing the crop production at territorial level in the past 20 years, from the perspective of resource utilization, can represent a starting point for the formulation of sectoral economic policy options, in terms of increased efficiency of resources involved in the increase in value, with direct impact on the attenuation of gaps and disparities at local level.