Short Analysis of Flowers and Ornamental Plants Market in Romania
Abstract
The aim of the present research is to present the evolution of the flowers and ornamental plants market in Romania. The materials used are two studies realized by the Netherlands Ministry of Economy and Romanian Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. The method applied consists in analysis of statistical data. The evolution of internal production and cultivated surfaces is presented in Table 1. Significant evolutions of open field surfaces and productions can be observed in 2007 and 2008, when the surfaces almost doubled and production increased in average 10 times. In greenhouses the surface also doubled in 2008, while the production increased 12.92 times. With respect to quantifying the worth of flowers and ornamental plants markets in Romania, it is difficult to estimate, due to missing or incomplete registration of market movements [1], encouraging tax evasion. However it is estimated that in 2006, 90% of cut flowers and 80% of pot flowers and ornamentals are imported [1], these values decreasing in the next two years [2]. The imports are made mainly from the Netherlands, Hungary and Italy [1].Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:
a) Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
b) Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
c) Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).