REGIONAL DISPARITIES OF AGRICULTURAL PERFORMANCE
                           IN ROMANIA

                      Vasile Burja, “1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia


ABSTRACT: The accession to the European Union has opened new challenges for Romanian
agriculture, which must implement the principles of the Common Agricultural Policy. These principles
aim at achieving high performance agriculture, capable to ensure food security for the population and
to adequately develop the rural area. The paper intends to analyse the performance of Romanian
agriculture in relation to the agriculture in the European Union and to highlight the recorded regional
disparities in order to fully exploit the potential of agriculture. Data Envelopment Analysis is the used
method, which provides information for the relative assessment of performance in relation to the
decision-making units, considered a gauge. The results of the analysis show the poor performance of
agriculture in Romania, and the efficiency recorded at the level of the development regions varies.

Key words: agriculture, Data Envelopment Analysis, sustainable performance, efficiency frontier, developing
regions

JEL codes: N50, O13, Q001