Abstract:

Wheat production represents an important factor in ensuring Romania’s food security, independence and supremacy. During the interwar period, Romania was the main agricultural area producing cereals at a European level. Growing cereals, and especially wheat, is a very old practice on Romanian territory. Although wheat production suffered an important decrease after the change in the political regime from Romania, lately there has been a recovery in the sector, although the optimal use of Romania’s natural potential hasn’t been reached yet. The present paper proposes an assessment of the national wheat production, of the surfaces on which wheat is grown and of the average productivity per hectare by means of analysing the official data offered by the Romanian and local statistics. The conducted research showed that the record wheat yields obtained in the last few years by Romanian agriculture were not directly influenced by government investments in irrigation systems or by additional quantities of chemical fertilizers. Government and private measures to increase the invested capital or the irrigated areas, to modernize agricultural technologies or to improve wheat species may lead to an increase in the volume of wheat production and could place Romania among the most significant exporters in the world.