Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 25 ISSUE 1
Written by Cristian-Răzvan MARIN, Ancuta MARIN

Cereals play an important role in both human and animal nutrition. Their transportation from cultivated areas to warehouses and/or silos requires detailed and efficient planning, so that deliveries to consumers are made in a timely manner, with minimal losses in the supply chain. The performance of agricultural producers is negatively impacted by infrastructure constraints related to the sustainability of crop production, which artificially raise transportation costs and hazards. Maintaining an agricultural enterprise's profit margin requires effective fuel cost management. Cost optimization involves adopting measures to reduce all cost elements, starting from those that have the highest share in total expenses and eliminating those considered less useful in the respective process. The paper aims to determine the share of transport costs, in this case diesel, in production costs and their influence on total expenses. The methods used included a bibliometric study of the literature and a study case was presented based the technologial sheet and also the substantiated wheat crop budget, at Research Institute for Agricultural Economy and Rural Development (ICEADR). Based on the data, a model was created to highlight the share of diesel transport costs in total variable costs, respectively total cost. The results proved that the cost of diesel for moving specialized means of transport has a significant share of the total expenses. Farmers have to carefully plan trasnportation taling into account the types of means of transportation, the distance, the wheat amount, the cost of diesel so that to minimize these costs.

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