Labour Implications on Agricultural Production in Romania

Valentina Constanta Tudor, Toma Adrian Dinu, Marius Vladu, Dragoș Smedescu, Ionela Mituko Vlad, Eduard Alexandru Dumitru, Cristina Maria Sterie and Carmen Luiza Costuleanu
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Valentina Constanta Tudor: Faculty of Management and Rural Development, University of Agronomic Sciences and Veterinary Medicine, 010961 Bucharest, Romania
Toma Adrian Dinu: Faculty of Management and Rural Development, University of Agronomic Sciences and Veterinary Medicine, 010961 Bucharest, Romania
Marius Vladu: Department of Agricultural and Forestry Technology, Faculty of Agronomy, University of Craiova, 19 “Libertăţii” Street, 200583 Craiova, Romania
Dragoș Smedescu: Faculty of Management and Rural Development, University of Agronomic Sciences and Veterinary Medicine, 010961 Bucharest, Romania
Ionela Mituko Vlad: Faculty of Management and Rural Development, University of Agronomic Sciences and Veterinary Medicine, 010961 Bucharest, Romania
Eduard Alexandru Dumitru: Office for Rural Development, Research Institute for Agriculture Economy and Rural Development, 010961 Bucharest, Romania
Cristina Maria Sterie: Office for Rural Development, Research Institute for Agriculture Economy and Rural Development, 010961 Bucharest, Romania
Carmen Luiza Costuleanu: Department of Agroeconomy, Faculty of Agriculture, “Ion Ionescu de la Brad Iasi” University of Life Sciences, 700490 Iasi, Romania

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 14, issue 14, 1-22

Abstract: Throughout this paper, the theoretical concepts from the above areas were combined with the analysis and interpretation of statistical data from the same areas of interest, resulting in a detailed analysis of how the agricultural labour force influences the yields of the five most important crops in the Romanian agricultural sector, namely, wheat, maize, sunflower, rapeseed and soybean. The analysis was carried out within the eight NUTS-listed development regions. A bibliometric analysis of the importance of the academic environment for agricultural labour force research was previously carried out using VOSviewer software. The content of this document aims to determine the impact that the agricultural labour force has on the productivity of the five main crops cultivated in Romania over large areas during the period 2015–2019, where, although the population employed in agriculture has decreased, the yields of these crops have increased due to the technological development process started in agriculture. As of 2019, only 9% of the total Romanian population is represented by the population employed in agriculture and 39.41% and 61.37% of the total area of the country are represented by arable/agricultural area, respectively.

Keywords: labour force; population employed in agriculture; production; arable land; labour productivity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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