Abstract:

Agriculture, the main branch of Romania's national economy, has been on the upward trend in recent years. The agricultural sector is still trying to keep up with the changes taking place locally and internationally and to adapt, to remain competitive and to increase production. An important role in the economic growth of a country plays the international trade because it express the ability to produce certain goods and to provide services. The purpose of the paper was to analyze the trends and correlations in Romania's oilseeds market, in the context of the accession to the European Union, based on the data supplied by the National Institute of Statistics and Eurostat. The statistical data have been processed based on fixed indices, average, average annual growth rate and the imports coverage degree by exports (an indicator of economic competitiveness). Oilseeds cultivated area has continuously increased in the analyzed period from 1,340.4 thousand ha in 2007 to 1,629.5 thousand ha in 2016. Oilseeds price reflected a large variation from a year to another, continuous increasing, justified by demand/offer, starting from 2007.