Doing Business with Romania - Über die Osec

o The agricultural land size and the natural available human resources makes Romania a very
important producer and partner for the Central and Eastern European market of agro-food
products;
o The support available under the EAFRD represents the ambition to implement the core EU
policies including the re-launched Lisbon strategy and the Gothenburg declaration on sustainable
development;
o Since February 2010, the European Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development Mr.
Dacian Ciolos.
Issues
o Low performance of the Romanian agriculture not correlated at all with its real potential;
o High proportion of small, subsistence farms (56% of farms are under 3 ha);
o Low level of productivity and efficiency (due to land fragmentation and lack of capital);
o Low access to credits and low development of specific services for agriculture;
o Lack of strategic and coordinated plans in the land cultivation area;
o Lack of healthy natural products consumption at population level;
o Lack of crop gathering points, in conjunction with communication and coordination with suppliers
and clients within the value chain;
o Lack of watering systems.
Opportunities
o Increasing the comprehensive, harmonious and sustainable contribution for the development of
the rural area;
o Reconstitution of ownership of agricultural land and forest;
o Completion of the privatization-lease assets and agricultural land and agricultural services;
o Stimulating and supporting the establishment of real agricultural farms and professional
organizations;
o Improving the structure of crops, for maximum efficiency in use of climatic conditions, to meet
internal and external market needs and to increase the profitability of farmers;
o Improvement of procedures for increasing the budget and its use with maximum efficiency -
financial resources, internal and external resources;
o Protecting and developing the forest and hunting fund;
o Settlement on other grounds of education, scientific research and counselling in agriculture, food
and forestry which used to be an important asset for local agriculture
o Rebuilding the watering systems which worked during the last years of the communist regime
o Structural reform of public institutions which falls under the authority of the Ministry of Agriculture;
o Achieving gradual but steady growth rate, minimum performance parameters, for integration into
the EU structures;
o Export of agro-ecologic products;
o Building further the certification and inspection systems for various products;
o Building export centres;
o Biofuels production plants, in accordance with EU biofuel rules.
Agriculture – See
o www.maap.ro
o www.apia.org.ro
o www.fao.org
o www.consultantaagricola.ro
o www.agroinfo.ro
o www.ccir.ro
o www.mmediu.ro
o www.ecomagazin.ro
o www.lumeasatului.ro
o http://europa.eu/pol/agr/index_ro.htm
o www.gazetadeagricultura.info
o www.ecolife/articole/agricultura/
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