Abstract:

Romanian agriculture, due especially to the agropedoclimatic specific conditions, presents a high variability of yields at all main cultures level. In addition, Romanian farmers, in majority with under 2 ha, don’t have the sufficient capital to enhance their efficiency or to invest in technologies and especially irrigation systems that can permit a real adaptation to the climatic changes form the last decades. In these conditions, the economic implications for the agricultural sector become an important issue for all stakeholders. Our research aims to emphasize these implications by measuring the gaps created in the last decade between yields obtained and the average and maximum yield potential at country and regional level for wheat, maize and sunflower. In our approach, we utilized statistical information available at the county and regional level on surfaces and yields and the estimated potential levels. We applied descriptive statistics method to estimate minimum, maximum and mean values and standard deviation for yields from 2003-2012 periods and for potential yield values. These outputs were than transpose in a production function that took in consideration-cultivated surfaces and the average prices of products from the same period.