Coupled support is one of the main payment schemes in the category "direct payments", introduced at EU level in the year 2015, funded from the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund (EAGF). In the EU-28, the highest share of coupled support payments in the year 2019 went to the livestock farming...

In the period 2003-2014, Romania became an important source for the export of live animals (bovines and sheep), both for the intra-Community trade and for third countries. Although in the same period the imports consisted mainly of breeding animals, the balance of trade was constantly positive....

The excessive farm fragmentation and the permanent decrease of dairy cow herds resulted in the diminution of the milk quantities delivered to processing from 1.8 million tons (43.4%) in 1990 to 1.1 million tons in 2014 (24.3%). The results of the analysis reveal that the milk collection centers...

The coupled support is a production limiting system, which is granted under the form of an annual payment, to those sectors or regions in a Member State, where certain types of agriculture or certain agricultural sectors, which are very important from economic, social or environmental reasons,...

In the period 2003-2014, Romania became an important source for the export of live animals (bovines and sheep), both for the intra-Community trade and for third countries. Although in the same period the imports consisted mainly of breeding animals, the balance of trade was constantly positive....

Meat production is crucial for reaching the self-sufficiency targets for the important agricultural products from the perspective of Romania's food security, as defined by a recent national strategy. Taking into consideration the difficult situation of the European pork market in 2015 and 2016,...

Taking into consideration the new Common Agricultural Policy (2014 -2020), for the milk sector, which will have as main component the milk quota removal after 2014, the present paper makes a comparative analysis of the indicators from the milk chain links (agriculture, processing, trade,...

The paper presents the main modalities and solutions by which agriculture and rural development can represent factors of economic-financial crisis shock attenuation and resuming economic growth. It is without doubt that the main modality to increase agriculture contribution to the general...

The aim of the international conference ESPERA 2016 was to present and evaluate the economic scientific research portfolio, to argue and substantiate Romanian development strategies – including European and global best practices. The plenary session and the parallel sections were centered on...

The volume contains the papers accepted and published in the proceedings of the 7th International symposium entitled: “Agrarian Economy and Rural Development - Realities and Perspectives for Romania,” organized by the Institute of Research for Agricultural Economics and Rural Development,...