ANALYSIS OF THE ECOLOGICAL AGRICULTURE SECTOR IN THE REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA

Gali­na IGNAT¹, Ana­tolie IGNAT²
STATE UNIVERSITY OF THE REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA¹
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH²
Cor­re­spond­ing author e‑mail: galina.ignat01 @ gmail.com
Abstract: The gen­er­al pur­pose of this arti­cle is the analy­sis of the organ­ic agri­cul­ture sec­tor in the Repub­lic of Moldo­va, deter­min­ing the place of this sec­tor in the nation­al econ­o­my, as well as high­light­ing the advan­tages and dis­ad­van­tages of this sec­tor. In the process of devel­op­ing this arti­cle, such research meth­ods as sta­tis­ti­cal analy­sis of exist­ing data, com­par­a­tive analy­sis, syn­the­sis of exist­ing infor­ma­tion, deduc­tion method, and SWOT analy­sis were applied. Fol­low­ing the use of research meth­ods, quan­ti­ta­tive para­me­ters were estab­lished that define the place of organ­ic agri­cul­ture in the econ­o­my of the Repub­lic of Moldo­va, the impor­tance of organ­ic agri­cul­ture in par­tic­u­lar in the cur­rent con­di­tions of agri­cul­tur­al devel­op­ment that involve such fac­tors as: cli­mate change, envi­ron­men­tal pol­lu­tion, inef­fi­cient use and abuse of nat­ur­al resources, etc. The indus­tri­al mod­el of agri­cul­tur­al inten­si­fi­ca­tion wide­ly used in the last decades did not ensure a sus­tain­able devel­op­ment of the agri­cul­tur­al sec­tor. As a result, organ­ic agri­cul­ture is gain­ing more and more impor­tance and demon­strates dynam­ic devel­op­ment trends. The prac­tice of organ­ic farm­ing is dic­tat­ed by mar­ket demand, with con­sumers increas­ing­ly demand­ing healthy, organ­ic, nat­u­ral­ly grown agri­cul­tur­al and food prod­ucts.
Key­words: eco­log­i­cal agri­cul­ture, eco­log­i­cal agri­cul­tur­al prod­uct, eco­nom­ic analy­sis
JEL clas­si­fi­ca­tion: Q10, Q13, Q15