The Effects of the Current Crises on the Development of the Granivore Sector in Romania

Diana-Maria Drigă ()
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Diana-Maria Drigă: Institute of Agricultural Economics, Romanian Academy, Bucharest

Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, 2023, vol. 20, issue 2, 123-133

Abstract: At the level of the European Union, in 2022, Romania ranked 9th in pig population, with a number of 3,328 thousand pigs and 13th in pork production, down by 7.8% compared to 2021. In terms of poultry meat production, Romania ranked 6th in the EU in 2022, up by 5.6% compared to the previous year. The paper aims to analyse the evolution of the granivore farming sector in Romania in the period 2015–2022, in the context of current crises. The study highlighted the effects produced by the energy crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine on the evolution of the production of granivores and the volatility of their purchase prices. The results of the study indicate that Romania’s pork industry has been severely affected by the African swine fever. The situation at the level of international markets determined an increase in production costs, which was also reflected in the increase in purchase prices for pork and poultry meat. Thus, an increase of 22.24% was noticed in October 2022 compared to March 2022 in the purchase price for liveweight pig meat and an increase of 29.65% in October 2022 compared to March 2022 in liveweight poultry meat.

Keywords: : pig population; poultry farming; production; average purchase prices; African swine fever (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q10 Q11 Q17 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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