EVOLUTION OF THE CEREALS MARKET IN ROMANIA IN THE PERIOD 2017–2021

Diana CREȚU
RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR Agri­cul­tur­al ECONOMY AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Cor­re­spond­ing author: cretu.diana @ iceadr.ro
Abstract: The paper presents the evo­lu­tion of the mar­ket for the main cere­al crops (wheat, corn, bar­ley) at the nation­al lev­el in the peri­od 2017–2021. These cere­als, as well as oth­ers, con­sti­tute one of the groups of food car­ri­ers that occu­py the largest share of the total food con­sumed, rep­re­sent­ing for the pop­u­la­tion the basic food present in the dai­ly meals in dif­fer­ent forms. In this study I pro­posed to ana­lyze sta­tis­ti­cal data regard­ing cul­ti­vat­ed areas, pro­duc­tion, prices, con­sump­tion, import, export, the par­tic­u­lar­i­ties of this mar­ket and based on I will draw a series of con­clu­sions from them. The research method used in the study is sta­tis­ti­cal pro­cess­ing, eco­nom­ic analy­sis, but also the cal­cu­la­tion of cer­tain indi­ca­tors based on the offi­cial data avail­able on spe­cial­ized web­sites. Due to the pedo­cli­mat­ic con­di­tions, Roma­nia is con­sid­ered a cere­al coun­try. Sta­tis­ti­cal data show that in 2021 Roma­nia was the sec­ond largest exporter of cere­als in the EU, the first place being corn.
Key­words: grain mar­ket, con­sump­tion, evo­lu­tion.
Clasi­fi­care JEL: Q11, Q13, L11