Romania should have 'great' agriculture in 2013

Romania should have a good, if not great, agricultural year in 2013, according to the first official predictions, which is expected to translate into cereal production of between 18 and 19 million tons.

While this is welcome news after last year’s drought, pundits and farmers alike agree that the output could be more than double this figure should productivity improve.“How could Romania become a net exporter of agricultural products? This is a key question and the solutions are relatively simple but ultimately hard to accomplish (…) if one looks at the sector’s productivity,” said Achim Irimescu, secretary of state with the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MADR), last week during the How Can Agriculture become the Economy’s Star? conference.