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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 20 ISSUE 1
Written by Elena DERUNOVA, Natal’ya KIREEVA, Olesya PRUSCHAK

It is proved that a new impetus to the sustainable growth of regional agri-food systems and rural territories can be given by a paradigm shift in socio-economic development. The advantages of an inclusive development model, aimed not only at ensuring economic growth, but also at solving social and environmental problems, strengthening the potential of both regions and the state, are substantiated. Problems in the field of state support for agriculture were identified (inadequate level of financing, irrational structure of subsidies, asymmetry in the distribution of funds by regions and economic forms, discriminatory approach to sustainable development of rural territories, lack of a clear mechanism for substantiating the limits and extent of state intervention). The possibilities of inclusive development of the agri-food system are shown (uniform and fair state support for all agricultural producers, employment growth and activation of rural population reproduction, conservation of rural territories, solution of environmental problems of natural capital depletion and ecosystem exploitation). Methodological approaches have been developed to assess the effectiveness of state support for the agri-food system at the macro and meso levels. The results of the study indicate that the current system of state support is mainly compensatory in nature and does not provide a solution to a wide range of social and environmental problems, which contradicts the imperatives of sustainable development based on inclusive growth.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 20 ISSUE 1
Written by Agatha POPESCU, Adelaida Cristina HONTUS, Mirela CARATUS-STANCIU

The paper analyzed the tourist flow in Romania in order to identify the main trends and changes during the period 2009-2018 using the official empirical data and the specific indicators: tourist arrivals, overnight stays, average length of stay, monthly concentration rate, tourism intensity and residents' travels abroad. Romania has become year by year a more attractive tourist destination as the total arrivals reached 12.9 million in 2018, a double level than in 2009. The market is dominated by the Romanian visitors who accounted for 78% of arrivals. Hotels absorbed 9 million tourists, meaning 70 % of arrivals. More than 86 % foreigners prefer hotels. The overnight stays increased by 60% reaching 23.3 million in 2018, but the general trend is a decreasing one. Of the total overnight stays, 82 % belong to the Romanian tourists and 90 % are recorded in hotels. The length of stay is in general short about 2 days and with a tendency of decline. The most numerous arrivals are concentrated in August and July when the concentration rate is about 14-15 %. The occupancy rate increased, but it reached 22.18 % in 2018, the lowest level among the EU countries. In hotels, the occupancy rate reached 30 %. With 66 tourist/100 inhabitants and 54.13 per km2, Romania's tourism intensity is among the lowest in the EU. In 2018, the residents registered 21 million travels abroad, by 80 % more than in 2009 and with a tendency to grow. As a final conclusion, Romania's potential in tourism should be much better exploited, the demand/offer ratio should be balanced, tourist destinations should be more intensively promoted and service quality should be improved in order to grow the attractiveness of the country and tourist flow.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 20 ISSUE 1
Written by Agatha POPESCU

The paper analyzed pork market in the EU and in the top 10 pork producing countries in the period 2007-2018 based on the statistical data using dynamics analysis based on fixed basis index, and trend analysis based on polynomial and linear equations. The pig number declined in the EU, accounting for 148.2 million heads in 2018. In this year, there were slaughtered 259.3 million pigs from which there were obtained 23.84 million tonnes pork, by 3.8% more than in 2007. About 64% of the EU pork output is carried out in Germany, Spain, France, Denmark and Netherlands. The EU pork exports reached 3.93 million tonnes in 2018, 2 times more than in 2007. The pork imports are not significant and declined. The EU export value was double in 2018, accounting for Euro 7.3 billion, of which 71% is due to Spain, Germany, Denmark and Netherlands. The EU-28 is the top pork exporter in the world, its trade balance reached Euro 7.2 Billion in 2018, being 2.3 times higher than in 2007. The highest trade balance is registered by Spain, Germany, Denmark, Netherlands, Italy, and France. The average pork carcass price was Euro 142.04 in 2018 at the EU level. Pork is the most consumed meat in the EU, an inhabitant consuming 35 kg per year, 3 times more than the world average. As a final conclusion, the main trends which will continue in the near future in the EU pork market are the following ones: the decline in pig livestock, the slight growth of pork production, the intensification of exports, the decrease in imports and a slight decline of consumption.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 20 ISSUE 1
Written by Agatha POPESCU, Toma Adrian DINU, Elena STOIAN, Valentin SERBAN

The paper analyzed turnover indicators in terms of working capital (WCT), total assets (TAT) and fixed assets (FAT) on the profitableness in term of return on assets (ROA) and equity (ROE) of six companies, codified F1-F6, dealing with dairy farming in the surroundings of Bucharest, the capital of Romania in the period 2009-2018. Descriptive statistics, correlation and determination coefficients, as well as polynomial regression models were used to process the data in order to prove in what measure the increase of turnover could have a beneficial effect on effectiveness of the business. Despite that the firms are in the top for their financial results, it was noticed a large variation regarding the dynamics of sales and profit, but the general trend was an increasing one. Based on the indicators taken into account, the resulting hierarchy of the companies was F5, F2, F1, F3, F4 and F6. A weak relationship was found between WCT, TAT and FAT and ROA and ROE, with a few exceptions as follows: in F4, r =0.540 between WCT and ROA, r=0.703 between TAT and ROA, r = 0.806 between FAT and ROA and r=0.565 between WCT and ROE, in F5, r=0.565between WCT and ROE, and in F6 r = 0.601 between TAT and ROA and r = 0.525 between FAT and ROA. Another conclusion was that in F4, the variation of WCT and TAT could influence the variation of ROA, and the variation of FAT could influence the variation of ROE in a higher measure. The polynomial regression models showed that in F4, one more unit of TAT could determine an increased ROA by 0.2609, and one more unit of FAT could led to a higher ROA by 0.333 and of ROE by 0.970. In F5, one more unit of WCT could grow ROE by 3.895, and one more unit TAT will determine a higher ROE by 0.282. As a final conclusion, in financial management of the dairy companies turnover must be carefully managed in order to get a higher effectiveness and profitability of the business.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 20 ISSUE 1
Written by Liviu MARCUTA, Letitia PURDOIU, Serban PURDOIU, Valentina TUDOR, Alina MARCUTA

In a period when competition is increasing, and the quality of food is an important element that the consumer takes into account in the choices he makes, sensory analysis is a useful tool for any manufacturer. Thus sensory analysis is a method of establishing consumer preferences regarding a particular product starting from the use of the senses: taste, smell, hearing, sight, tactile feeling. In this way, it can contribute to the evaluation of the taste quality of a product, but also to its differentiation in relation to the competition, to its positioning on the market, to the identification and transposition of tastes, all of which result in increasing the quality and satisfying the taste of the consumers. The present paper aims to analyze consumers' preferences regarding the apple juice product, the methods used being the Likert scale and the rank ordering method. In this way we managed not only to measure the level of consumer satisfaction, but we could also classify the apple juice assortments, in relation to the intensity of the sensory characteristics that were the basis of the case study.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 20 ISSUE 1
Written by Daniela DANA, Irina-Adriana CHIURCIU, Valentina VOICU, Elena SOARE, Daniela RĂDUCU

Although Romania was the third apple grower in the European Union in 2018, after Poland and Italy, the country's apple production accounted for only 4.6% of total European production. The paper presents the evolution of the production of apples and the number of apples grown in the Macroregions of Romania, during the period 20102018, emphasizing the values registered in the Macroregion Four. Establishing the restrictions and recommendations for the improvement of the land and of the apple orchards was the main purpose of this paper. The experiments were made at Domaşnea farm, Caraş Severin County (Macroregion Four) on apple trees orchards, Golden Delicious and Starkrimson varieties.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 20 ISSUE 1
Written by Emilia-Ancuța BOANTA, Leon MUNTEAN, Florin RUSSU, Ioana PORUMB, Raluca-Maria PARLICI, Andreea-Daniela ONA

Barley (Hordeum vulgare) is one of the essential cereal crops for humankind, the harvested area with barley ranks the 3rd place regarding grains cereals, after wheat and rice. The yield potential of barley, trait with complex genetic determinism, represents the maximum level of biomass which a genotype can realize under optimal conditions of growth and development as well as in an environment free of diseases, pests and weeds. The inheritance of quantitative traits involves a large number of genes which act additively in determining the character. To increase the yield potential of barley varieties, the present paper studied three traits which are involved in yield: spike length, grain weight/spike and grain number/spike that on 22 cultivars of barley, in ecological condition of ARDS Turda. Significance of the sample F for the genetic factor and interaction between the year and the genotype, for all three studied traits, reflects the fact that between those the 22 distinct genotypes there are very significant differences, which can be used in breeding programmes. As genitors for breeding programmes we can use cultivars Daciana, Romaniţa and To 2170/01 for spike lenght, cultivars Turdeana, Aura, Daciana and Xanadou for grain weight/spike and cultivars Turdeana and Adina for grain number/spike. The correlations between the three studied traits, which influence the barley yield, were positive, statistically assured, allowing their simultaneous improvement in the breeding programs.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 20 ISSUE 1
Written by Tarek FOUDA, Mohamed DARWESH, Mahmoud ELKHODAREY

The aim of this research to study the effect of using fresh and stored potatoes on the wearing behaviours for abrasive peeling drum, The wearing accrue in inner peeling drum were covered with emery paper to remove peel from potatoes by scratch. The potato using two different cases fresh and stored for three months under the optimum store conditions. The measurement such as wearing rate, wearing resistance, and emery change were tested to study the wearing behaviour. The changes in physical properties of potato tubers accrued because dry matter decreased after storing. The results showed that effect on peeling which varied between 25 to 50 second at constant load of 25 kg, also peeling productivity varied between 1,800 to 3,600 kg/h. the peel amount varied between 45 to 90 kg/h. addition to the minimum time to change emery sheet after 250 h., and 980kg with wearing resistance about 0.011 h/kg while the maximum time to change emery sheet after 1,950 h., and 4,380kg with wearing resistance about 0.022 h/kg

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 20 ISSUE 1
Written by Zbigniew GOŁAŚ

This paper analyzes the relationships between the efficiency of working capital management and the return on assets of milk processing companies. Working capital management was assessed for efficiency based on the Days Sales of Inventory (DSI), Days Sales Outstanding (DSO), Days Payable Outstanding (DPO) and the Cash Conversion Cycle (CCC). The study was based on micro-data for dairy companies from 2007–2016 retrieved from the EMIS database. Based on panel regression models, it was concluded that an improvement in working capital management has a positive effect on the return on assets. The parameters of the models clearly showed that an increase in the DSI, DSO, DPO and CCC resulted for the dairy companies in a reduction in the return on operating assets

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 20 ISSUE 1
Written by Florin Marian RUSSU, Ioana PORUMB, Camelia Ancuța URDA, Emanuela FILIP, Cristina STANCĂ-MOISE, Adina VARADI, Liliana VASILESCU, Eugen PETCU

The experimental results were processed according to the polyfactorial experiences of type A x B x C where: A- was represented by the factor of locations with two graduations (Turda and Fundulea), B was the factor of year with three graduations (2016, 2017 and 2018) and C- factor genotypes with 25 graduations. Lines To 2027/10, To 2208/02 and the reselection of the Jubileu variety, are particularly noticeable in terms of average yield with relative increases compared to the control of 10, 9 and 5% respectively. The variation of the absolute productions was between 3683 kg/ha and 4862 kg/ha in Turda conditions and between 3265 kg/ha and 4143 kg/ha in Fundulea conditions. Following the use of the method proposed by Francis and Kannenberg (1978), the lines To 2027/10, To 2208/20, To 2167/01, To 2054/97, To 2095/01 and To 2013/99) which have a coefficient of variation below the average value and high output above average have proved to be production stable.

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