The vegetable market in Romania has certain particularities that differentiate it from the markets of other agricultural products, among which the most important are the following: the supply and demand atomization, seasonality, and zonality. The poor organization of the vegetable chain is...

The article aims to capture the main effects subsequent to Romania’s accession to UE-27 and integration in the common market, upon the external performances of the agricultural products. The analysis comprised both the evolution and structure of the commercial flows, determinant factors of the...

The research focused on the investigation of the comparative advantages of agri-food products in Romania estimated for the pre- and post-EU accession period. The method of calculating the degree of trade specialization applied to the agricultural sector was used. The index enables to evaluate...

The growing interdependency of national economies within the world economy as well as the increase of sectoral connections and dependencies of Romania’s economy are processes that determine the connection of the Romanian economy and agriculture (rural development, in its broader sense) to the...

The first part of this article presents a general overview of the current situation in the Romanian agriculture emphasizing its extreme polarisation and the importance of this sector for the economy. In the second part the emphasis falls on CAP reform. The authors seek to evaluate how the...

The Romanian meat sector holds a significant share in agriculture; in the year 2007 its value represented 16.1% of total agricultural output and 41.8% of animal production. In the first year after Romania’s accession to the European Union, an obvious increase of total meat production by 12.3%...

The paper starts from the theoretical premise that the business environment of the operators from the agri-food economy is, greater influenced by the behaviour of certain essential macro-economic variables of the market economies. For this purpose, our methodological approach investigates the...

The paper investigates price transmission along the agri-food chains, using the monthly series of agricultural, processor and consumer price indices in the period January 2006 – August 2010 for this purpose. The analysis is made at sectoral level and it is particularized for a few important...

The dynamics of the agri-food systems plays an important role in the development and the fast increase of the number of modern retail stores. Several driving factors contribute to this situation such as industrialization, globalization and multinational systems, foreign direct investments. The...