Romania's agricultural sector not competitive

The daily Gândul comments on calls by President Traian Băsescu for Romanians to buy more domestic products: "Romania has a huge agricultural potential and people say it could even feed most of Europe's population. This may be the case, but so far it hasn't even managed to feed the 22 million Romanians. With a patchwork of two or three hectares of land farmers can just about feed their own families. The canister of diesel and sack of fertiliser politicians use as an incentive for farmers won't suffice to bring about the shift from a subsistence to a trading economy. The funding that is currently invested in agricultural production structures only sustains the status quo, or in other words the terrible poverty in villages. … But the delay in structural reform measures has a clear goal: the poorer the farmers are, the easier it is to manipulate them."

» full article (external link, Romanian)
More from the press review on the subject » Consumers, » Agriculture, » Romania
All available articles from » Gheorghe Cercelescu

» To the complete press review of Tuesday, February 10, 2009