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CoRR. 01/2009; abs/0903.0051.
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CoRR. 01/2009; abs/0903.4293.
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ABSTRACT: The aim of the present paper is to investigate the impact of financial allocations from national funds in the pre-accession period and in the first two years after the accession, through the evaluation of the effects of the measures of the state aid type upon the agricultural production growth, food selfsufficiency and agricultural inputs use, on the basis of data supplied by the Ministry of Agriculture, of the Payment Agency monitoring, and of a field survey conducted on 36 commercial farms with different specializations. On the basis of the analyses and farmers’ opinions on the support that has been received, two scenarios were formulated with regard to the utilization of financial allocations in 2009.
Agricultural Economics and Rural Development. 01/2009; 6(1):39-60.
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ABSTRACT: The paper presents the result of a project by which the establishment of a market information system for the agricultural markets in Romania was envisaged. On the web site www.preturiagronet. ro in the created database, the prices of the main crop and animal products are displayed on the basis of certain inputting mechanisms discussed and agreed with the five partners (associations and professional organizations in the field) involved in project development. The paper presents the infrastructure used for the program design and the partial results concerning the inputting for agricultural prices in the created database.
Agricultural Economics and Rural Development. 01/2009; 6(2):249-262.
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ABSTRACT: The first part of this article presents a general overview of the current situation in the Romanian agriculture emphasizing its extreme polarisation and the importance of this sector for the economy. In the second part the emphasis falls on CAP reform. The authors seek to evaluate how the Romanian agriculture has evolved since integration and to estimate the impact of future CAP reforms on this sector. The paper presents the estimated impact of CAP reform on market measures, direct payments and rural development. The formulation of certain simplified scenarios of possible CAP reform provides the necessary benchmarks for a brief analysis of the effects upon consumers’ and producers’ welfare, as well as upon the rural area in general. Based on a simplified model, under some specific hypotheses, the net welfare effect due to the price changes for the selected products is positive in both reform scenarios, yet greater in the case of the radical reform. Regarding direct payments, the authors’ opinion is that for the large farms, some of them operating on thousands of hectares, cannot contribute to the objective of supporting farmers’ incomes. Reform measures will bring in Romania’s case a good operation of agricultural markets and the market orientation of farms, which will result in agricultural incomes based mainly upon the sale of agricultural products rather than upon subsidies or social allocations. As the key-problem of Romanian rural areas is poor infrastructure and the generalized poverty, the solution for the modernization of rural areas seems to be their “urbanization”, through investments in infrastructure, development of community services and a move away from farming to other economic sectors. In order to achieve this, the state has to mobilize internal and external resources for rural development rather than for agriculture. This implies a greater allocation of resources to Pillar II.
Agricultural Economics and Rural Development. 01/2008; 5(3-4):161-180.
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ABSTRACT: Placing Romania’s agriculture in the EU context, the article is trying to determine whether this sector, featuring extreme polarization and highly oversized labor force, can contribute to country’s general effort towards catching-up. The first section describes the multiple challenges the sector is faced with, with an emphasis on the poor economic utilization of some 25 percent of the agricultural land and a significant share of the labor force, currently clustered in the subsistence pole. How the common agricultural policy, both through transfers from the EU budget and by disciplining domestic farming and non-farming policies, is expected to contribute to bridging the gaps is the topic of the second section. In the third section, by employing a non-parameter method (Data Envelopment Analysis), we are trying to assess the performance of the commercial farming pole, being known that the diffusion of technology is an important ingredient of the convergence process. Finally, section four describes how rural development measures are instrumental in pushing competitive farming, with direct policy implications when considering flexible allocations between the two Pillars of the Common Agricultural Policy.
Agricultural Economics and Rural Development. 01/2008; 5(3-4):181-196.
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ABSTRACT: The paper attempts to evaluate, on the basis of two scenarios (moderate and radical), the effects of CAP reforming compared to the situation of current CAP scenario and its effects upon welfare. Direct payments for the large farms, some of them operating on thousands of hectares, cannot contribute to the objective of supporting farmers’ incomes. The solution for the modernization of rural areas seems to be their “urbanization”, through investments in infrastructure, development of community services and a move away from farming to other economic sectors.
European Association of Agricultural Economists, 109th Seminar, November 20-21, 2008, Viterbo, Italy. 01/2008;
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ABSTRACT: Using the most recent available data, this paper assesses who is likely to benefit, in the short-term, from the implementation of the CAP in Romania. Particularly, it focuses on the distributional impacts of the new form of agricultural subsidies under the CAP, i.e. SAPS and CNDP, identifying the main gainers and losers. Preliminary results reveal a highly uneven distribution of subsidies across farms, with the very large-scale ones, particularly those specialised in so-called “energy” crops, benefiting most from the flat rate direct aid. As a result, the existing gap between Romanian low-income and high-income farms will become larger, with those most vulnerable hardly benefiting from the introduction of (national and EU) direct payments.
European Association of Agricultural Economists, 109th Seminar, November 20-21, 2008, Viterbo, Italy. 01/2008;
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ABSTRACT: In the pre-accession period, in addition to the support to all agricultural holdings by EU funded programs, specific national measures were also applied, together with massive allocation of funds from the national budget in order to support the agricultural producers. The present paper is analyzing the results of SAPARD Program implementation (measure 3.1 Investments on agricultural holdings), as well as of the nationally funded programs. One third of the total funds were allocated for this measure. The present paper is analyzing the eligible projects, as compared to those under the nationally funded investment programs, their distribution by counties and development regions, investment types and volumes, and legal status of the applicant farms, as well as the impact of investments upon the establishment of new farms. At the same time, the private consultancy and design firms, as well as the agricultural consultancy offices at county level had an important contribution in supporting the farmers to carry out over 3600 eligible projects.
European Association of Agricultural Economists, 104th Seminar, September 5-8, 2007, Budapest, Hungary. 01/2007;
