Abstract:

From an organizational viewpoint, Romania is facing an unorganized flow of agricultural and forestry production circuit. The current way of marketing agricultural production is slow, deficient,  as there is still institutionalized partnership relations for all required stages of the supply chain (from primary production to final product destination, the buyer). An illustration of this point is the lack of marketing of domestic products in relation to the abundance of similar imported products whose prices are often prohibitive.

Encouragement for the formation of producer groups is important in the Romanian's agro-economic context, where small farms predominate, economically unviable, being territorially and organizationally dispersed.

Under these circumstances, this study wants to make a foray into the current situation of producer groups in Romania, showing the main advantages, risks and proposals for increasing farmers' interest for these types of associations and improve their operation.