Romania has over 11 hectares of melliferous flora, with a potential of over 200 thousands tones honey and thus it can ensure good conditions for over 1.7 million bee families. In Iaşi County, apiculture is the main economic activity for many inhabitants living in Comarna, Tomeşti, Paşcani and Trifeşti –...

Established in the year 2011 by five founding members, the Agro Castranova Agricultural Cooperative has had a laudable development. In just four years, it has expanded to four counties (Dolj, Argeș, Gorj and Olt) and has managed to gather 3,000 members, both natural and legal persons. 900 of them are...

Sorin and Cristian Surcel brothers laid the bases of a quail farm three years ago, in the very Capital city. In time, the activity evolved and has become a family business. Now, the two brothers want to access European funds and find methods to develop their business. Quail eggs are to...

Within the Swiss – Romanian Cooperation Program, in 2014 the Project „ Sustainable agricultural models for the mountain area in Romania“, financed by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation. The partners involved in implementing this project are the Swiss Center for Mountain Regions (SAB), agency coordinating this project, the...

Fundatia ADEPT has been working since 2004 to protect the nature-rich, farmed landscapes of Transylvania, and to support the traditional farming communities who have created them over centuries and who maintain them today. ADEPT’s aim is to give these landscapes and communities an economic future and relevance in the 21st...

The development of agriculture in nowadays circumstances cannot be merely assessed from the perspective of agriculture as a main branch of national economy, but further from a social point of view which is highly significant as it represents the traditional small farm households which provide the basic necessaries for the rural population...

Currently, short food supply chains represent a viable alternative to the conventional globalized supply chains, thus gradually becoming a more and more proeminent actor in the global logistics sector. The previously mentioned short food supply chains are in general extremely varied both in terms of nature and practices, benefiting producers as well as...

Based on the opportunity offered to Romania by the European Union by the funding Axis 4 - LEADER within the National Rural Development Programme 2007-2013 at the initiative of eight administrative units since the beginning of 2011, it was established in the County of Arad the Miniș-Măderat Vineyard Local Action...

South-eastern Transylvania is one of Europe’s most important natural and cultural landscapes, supporting many rare habitats and fauna and flora species including some of the most significant areas of wildflower-rich grasslands in Europe. This high nature value farmed landscape is the result of good husbandry over hundreds of years, and...

23 years ago, Ioan Neagoș established a milk processing company called Carmo-Lact Prod SRL. Currently, in addition to the factory in which all the products are manufactured under “Monor” brand, he also has a cow farm which provides the raw material for the factory, and a vegetal  arm. He wants...

As professional car mechanic, Vasile Mătrășoaie worked in the former Suceava car repair enterprise, and after work, he took pleasure in growing vegetables. He was even selling to his colleagues the seeds he was planting in order to make some money. This was his beginning in a field in which...

Berindu is an ordinary village located at 31 kilometres from Cluj-Napoca, on the road to Zalău. People from here, householders like in the whole Ardeal, liver their lives working the land and rearing animals. In the small locality affiliated to Sânpaul Municipality from Cluj we found a young investor in...

At only 23 km from Braşov, on the National Road 13, there is Rotbav, a village from Feldioara Municipality, Braşov County. The establishment is proud of its magnificent historical past along which it borne numerous names. The legend says that in the first half of the 13th century, about 20...

Under the decision of the Ministers Council no. 2731 of December 28th, 1956, on the establishment of Fundulea Research Institute for Corn Cultivation, Experimental Corn Cultivation Institute from Turda was also established. Initially, the institute was organized as of February 1st, 1957 – within the perimeter of the didactical farm...

The association history of farmers in Romania begins on March 10th, 1835, when Theodor Diamant laid the grounds for the „Phalanstery in Scăieni”. It was an organization form which should have become a production and consumption association exclusively based on agricultural pursuits. The project itself belonged to the Utopian socialist...

One may say about Mihail Mucsi that he is a „former” scientific researcher of the potato crop. But this is not true. Even if he no longer holds this position he occupied for 15 years (when he also held his Ph.D. thesis in agronomical science with a very import and...

This paper approached the complex issue of the association of semi-subsistence vegetable producers and their access to the large retail chains, in the context of the financial support received through the National Rural Development Program in order to connect these farms to the market.    

Ianco Zifceak is one of the people who know his agriculture. Immediately after the Revolution, five hectares of agricultural land was returned to his parents and then he bought and rented other hectares, so as in 2004 he worked approximately 200 hectares with his brother Ioji. But he practices the...

Jeni Dumbravă has been working in agriculture since 1970, when she was an economist for CAP, a vegetable growing farm in Poarta Albă. „The people never respected the office hours since in agriculture one cannot work according to a fixed schedule. Even then, during communism, people loved the work compared...

As a child, he would spend his holidays with his grandparents in Tomești, Harghita county, and with the ones in Stânceni, Mureș county, whose yards he would fill with animals he would “collect” from the village. He went to high school far away from his parents, in Gheorghieni, because that’s where...