STUDY ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT TRENDS OF ROMANIA AGRICULTURE

The purpose of this paper is to highlight the progress of Romania on sustainable agriculture and what are the prospects for this type of development, given the possibilities and restrictions it has. For Romania, European Union member state, sustainable development represents a rational national perspective, resulting in a new paradigm of development, to establish the confluence of economic, social and environmental. To highlight the development of sustainable agriculture in Romania was taken into account a number of indicators, and calculate the indices fixedbase. The calculations were based on data provided by the Romanian Statistical Yearbooks 2008-2013, and the data provided on the website of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. To achieve sustainable development, Romania has important strengths such as: the soil that allows the practice of ecological agriculture, but there is also problems, of which the most important are: scientific research in agriculture is low, the number of researchers is declining due to financial problems.