STUDY ON THE PRODUCTION AND MARKETING OF SUNFLOWER SEEDS WORLDWIDE IN THE PERIOD 2015–2020

Ele­na SOARE ^¹,Iri­na CHIURCIU ^², Livia DAVID ^³, Aure­lia BALAN ^⁴, Cari­na DOBRE ^⁵, Adi­na IORGA ^⁶
UNIVERSITY OF AGRONOMIC SCIENCES AND VETERINARY MEDICINE OF BUCHAREST^1,2,3,4,5,6
Cor­re­spond­ing author: balan.aurelia @ managusamv.ro
Abstract: This study high­lights impor­tant aspects regard­ing the pro­duc­tion and mar­ket­ing of sun­flower seeds world­wide for the peri­od 2015–2020. In order to achieve this study, a series of indi­ca­tors spe­cif­ic to the sec­tor of pro­duc­tion and mar­ket­ing of sun­flower seeds were ana­lyzed, such as: the area cul­ti­vat­ed world­wide with sun­flower; the pro­duc­tion of sun­flower seeds achieved world­wide; the aver­age pro­duc­tion per hectare of sun­flower; the imports and exports of sun­flower seeds world­wide. Sun­flow­ers are cul­ti­vat­ed on all con­ti­nents, but on dif­fer­ent sur­faces. Europe is the leader of the rank­ing at con­ti­nen­tal lev­el, regard­ing, on the one hand, the areas cul­ti­vat­ed with sun­flower, and on the oth­er hand, the pro­duc­tion obtained for sun­flower seeds. Sun­flower seeds have a num­ber of uses, which places them in the area of the most impor­tant oilseeds crops.  Nowa­days, world­wide, the pro­duc­tion and mar­ket­ing of sun­flower seeds is giv­en a spe­cial impor­tance. The sta­tis­ti­cal data pre­sent­ed and ana­lyzed in the study were tak­en from the FAOSTAT web­site.
Key­words:  areas cul­ti­vat­ed with sun­flower; aver­age pro­duc­tion per hectare of sun­flower; imports and exports of sun­flower seeds world­wide
JEL clas­si­fi­ca­tion: Q11, Q13, Q17