RESEARCHES REGARDING THE CONSUMPTION OF GRAPES AND WINE IN ROMANIA

TUREK-RAHOVEANU PETRUȚA
RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR THE ECONOMY OF AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Cor­re­spond­ing author e‑mail: turek.petruta @ iceadr.ro
Abstract: Viti­cul­ture in Roma­nia is a tra­di­tion­al activ­i­ty, har­mo­nious­ly devel­oped as a result of the extreme­ly favourable nat­ur­al con­di­tions that grapevine encoun­ters through­out the coun­try. Viti­cul­ture has always tak­en an impor­tant spot in the agri­cul­tur­al econ­o­my on a nation­al lev­el as well as world­wide, being appre­ci­at­ed from sev­er­al points of view like: social (nutri­tion sources: grapes, wine, tra­di­tion­al prod­ucts that come from them) and eco­nom­ic (viti­cul­ture prod­ucts cap­i­tal­iza­tion, inter­nal com­merce, inter­na­tion­al com­merce). Edu­ca­tion, viti­cul­ture tourism and socio-eco­nom­ic devel­op­ment in the last years have left their mark upon the con­sump­tion of grapes and grapes prod­ucts by Roman­ian con­sumers. The con­sump­tion and choos­ing of prod­ucts has become a more and more doc­u­ment­ed activ­i­ty for Roma­ni­ans. The pur­pose of this study is to fol­low the evo­lu­tion of grapes and wine con­sump­tion in Roma­nia with the help of sta­tis­tic indi­ca­tors. By ana­lyz­ing future per­spec­tives regard­ing con­sump­tion on a nation­al lev­el it is expect­ed that by 2025 the aver­age annu­al grapes con­sump­tion will sur­pass 23 kg/inhabitant, if it main­tains the same ten­den­cy from the ana­lyzed peri­od. In order to devel­op this sec­tor, a series of finan­cial aids and sup­port mea­sures have been extend­ed in order for the farm­ers to ben­e­fit from.
Key words: grapes, wine, wine prod­ucts, con­sump­tion
JEL rank­ing: Q 10, Q 11, Q18