REMARKS ON THE ECONOMIC-FINANCIAL RATE OF RETURN FOR A LARGE ECOLOGICAL FARM IN SOUTHERN ROMANIA

Ecological agriculture is a developing sector in Romania, the farms’ profitability depending directly on their physical and economic size. Large ecological farms are fewer in this sector, but due to their size they succeed in dealing better with high investments costs and in managing more effectively the process of production, animal husbandry or crop cultivation. The methodology used in this paper is based on the data gathered from an agricultural business of 750 hectares in the southern part of Romania and includes calculations specific to economic-financial rate of return, starting from the company’s economic outturn account. The analysis performed and presented in this paper contributes to increasing the knowledge and importance of the information provided by this ecological farm’s economic-financial rate of return.