The objectives of subsidies for agriculture target economic, social and environmental aspects, and the value added from processing contribute to food security and income gaining, being an important method to improve livelihoods. This paper aims to identify the progress made in the fruit sector...

Food security is a broad interdisciplinary process with multi-sectoral implications that go beyond the food production, supply and procurement needs. Ensuring consumption availabilities has lately gained particular importance due to the evolution of the prices of production factors. The analysis...

The paper intends to examine the effects of the accession to the European Union on Romania's cereal sector, in the period 2007-2016, in terms of evolution of areas cultivated with wheat and maize, production in volume and value terms, consumption and self-sufficiency, exports and imports, as...

The present study investigates various issues related to farm competitiveness, using viability indicators, such as Net Value Added and Net Income of farms, as well as indicators regarding factor productivity, highlighting the relationship between productivity, farm typology and farm size....

The paper highlights coordinates and aspects of the sheep breeding sector, which can lead to the creation of the framework of efficiency or inefficiency of production activities. The sheep sector is very diverse in terms of farm size, breeds and scale of production. Low average incomes, which...

The paper presents dimensional structure of sheep and goats farms at national level, as well as a comparative analysis of it, conducted at the level of development regions. As of April 30, 2019, there were 338,371 sheep farms, of which 65% were in the category "below 10 heads", belonging to...

The ecological, genetic, biological approach proposed by agricultural specialists in order to protect plants and crops has a role in reducing the impact of pests through the process of selection and improvement of genetic resources in the processes of planting, development and introduction of...

The aim of the research was to find some of the most often occurred risk events in sheep farms in Bulgaria. 22 sheep farms in Bulgaria were surveyed and questionnaire information was collected from them in 2020.As a result of the study, it was found that the number of farms in which a risk event...