Best Practices for Integrating the Romanian Small Farmers into the Agri-Food Chain

Dan Boboc, Gabriel Popescu, Mirela Stoian and Georgiana-Raluca Ladaru and Dan Cosmin Petrache
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Dan Boboc: The Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania
Gabriel Popescu: The Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania
Mirela Stoian: The Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania
Georgiana-Raluca Ladaru and Dan Cosmin Petrache: The Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania

The AMFITEATRU ECONOMIC journal, 2017, vol. 19, issue 44, 315

Abstract: In the modern market economy, agri-food chains were imposed and strengthened due to unprecedented evolving recorded by supply and demand of food in recent decades, dynamic driven by market fragmentation, on the one hand, and specific processes of consumption and consumer emancipation, on the other hand. The objective of the paper aims to bring to the fore the best practices for support the Romanian small farmers to facilitate their access to the market, which is often dominated by large distribution networks. Reality has shown that financial support is not enough, even if farmers use modern and efficient technological systems, and that it is a need for an efficient integration of small producers in the agri-food sector. To highlight the best practices that can be used by Romanian small farmers were used information derived from: literature study on problems regarding the food sector; analysis of studies conducted by the consulting companies specialised in this field; analysing the consequences of recent legislation concerning the marketing of food products, namely its implementation in our country, especially in terms of small agricultural producers and their access to the Romanian market.

Keywords: best practices; agricultural producers; retail; agri-food chain (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: M11 O11 O13 Q13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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