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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 19 ISSUE 1
Written by Daniela PLEȘOIANU, Mihaela DAVID, Agatha POPESCU

The study of the tourist activity of an agency requires a careful analysis of all the components of this activity. The role of the tourism agency in tourism activity is the promotion and development of tourist products, this being the most important. The present paper analyzes the main aspects regarding the touristic activity of a tour operator, as well as its organization and functioning (conditions for the marketing of the tourist products, organizational modalities, the main tourist services offered and possibilities for their diversification for promotion and development tourism). In this paper there were mainly analyzed the tourist offerings and the number of foreign tourists arriving through the agency during 2008-2015. This analysis is very necessary in national and international tourism and the travel agency must have the necessary means to continuously upgrade its tourist product offerings. The main activity of the tourism agency both internally and externally, are the total economic and financial results of society, which are largely influenced by the tourism activity, which in turn depends on many conjunctural factors on the domestic and international market. For the detailed analysis of the indicators, we processed data provided by the "Vacanțe Minunate" Agency, related to foreign tourists, during 2008-2015. As a research methodology, we used the data provided by the Vacanțe Minunate Agency, which we processed, analyzed and interpreted, observing the tourist flows provided by the agency.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 19 ISSUE 1
Written by Daniela PLEȘOIANU, Mihaela DAVID, Agatha POPESCU

The study of the tourist activity of an agency requires careful analysis of all the components of this activity. The role of the tourism agency in tourism activity is the promotion and development of tourist products, this being the most important. The present paper analyzes the main aspects regarding the touristic activity of a tour operator, as well as its organization and functioning (conditions for the marketing of the tourist products, organizational modalities, the main tourist services offered and possibilities for their diversification for promotion and development tourism. This analysis is very necessary in national and international tourism and the travel agency must have the necessary means to continuously upgrade its tourist product offerings. For the detailed analysis of the indicators, we processed data provided by the Wonderful Vacations Agency, concerning the Romanian tourists, during 2000-2015.
The research methods specific to geography were also considered: observation, analysis and synthesis, the means of operation (description, explanation, hierarchy) and the finite elements of the use of research methods (descriptive model, mathematical model or model cartographic). The main activity of the tourism agency both internally and externally, are the total economic and financial results of society, which are largely influenced by the tourism activity, which in turn depends on many conjunctural factors on the domestic and international market. Travel Agency "Vacanțe Minunate" has as activities: relations and discount flight sales for organized groups; hotel reservations in Romania and anywhere in the world at contract rate; organization of meetings, conferences, professional meetings, rent-a-car (cars, minibuses, coaches); serving of sea and passenger ships for foreign currency exchange, as well as for local crew trips (Seaside tour, trips to the Danube Delta, wine tasting at Murfatlar; organization of business or tourist trips including flight ticket, hotel reservation, airport transfers, rent-a-car, optional tours. The Agency is in constant development and adaptation to the requirements of the tourists and the partner agencies with which it collaborates, makes special efforts every year since 2000 when it was established for the promotion and sale of the offers belonging to the Romanian Seas as a tourist destination, this being reflected in the good results he has with the hotels he represents as an agency. The agency has contracts with most hotels on the Black Sea coast of the resorts: Mamaia, Eforie Nord, Eforie Sud, Costinesti, Neptun, Olimp, Saturn, Venus, Cap Aurora, Jupiter, Mangalia, Vama Veche and 2 May in the summer season for over 60,000 tourists.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 19 ISSUE 1
Written by Daniela DANA, Irina-Adriana CHIURCIU, Valentina VOICU, Elena SOARE, Ovidiu Mihai POPESCU, Claudia POPESCU

The paper presents some aspects concerning the influence of special foliar fertilisation on yield and concentration of nutrients in hybrid sunflower seed. This way is useful in seed production, in order to obtain seeds enriched in nutrients, especially in Mo, which caused nutritional disorders in commercial lands. According to the results, the special foliar fertilisers have significantly increased the yields and the Mo concentration in hybrid sunflower seed and have generally positive effect on N, P, K, Zn and Cu concentrations. At the same time, the use of these fertilizers has contributed to Romania's leading position in the production of sunflower seeds, as evidenced by the materials processed on the Eurostat, MADR and NIS websites.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 19 ISSUE 1
Written by Ni Made Ayu Gemuh Rasa ASTITI, Ni Ketut Sri RUKMINI, I Gusti Ayu Dewi Seri REJEKI, Roostita L. BALIA

marketing channel of Bali-cattle has not yet identified and its uncertainty often affected by the socioeconomic profile of the farmer. Several socioeconomic motives such as the need to hold great traditional ceremonies called Ngodalin, marry off their child, build a house, and many others motives that encourage the farmer to sell their Bali-calf to the middleman called Belantik even with an inappropriate price. The study aimed to determine the socioeconomic profile of the farmer and marketing channel of Bali-calf at Bali Province. The research done with the exploratory methods with explanatory research design through survey and the data analysed with quantitative and qualitative approach. The marketing channel of Bali-calf identified at Badung and Buleleng District which chosen by purposive sampling based on the highest Bali-cattle population. The structured questioner used as an interview guideline to help obtain the answer from the respondent, which also equipped with an opened question. The results showed that 90% of respondents are in the productive age, only 6.67% respondents has main job as livestock farmer with average farming experience of 22.18 years. The cattle ownership average is 4.5 cattle/farmer with the motives of livestock farming for savings (48.88%) 48% and the motives for Bali-calf sales is a need for education fee (54%) with traditional ceremonies as the second reason (16.67%). The motives drive vary marketing channel that 73% dominated by direct selling from the farmer to the middleman (Belantik) then the middleman sold the Bali-calf at the animal market the it goes to the slaughterhouse.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 19 ISSUE 1
Written by Eduard Alexandru DUMITRU, Elena Daniela ȘURCĂ

Cucumber is a plant belonging to the Cucurbitaceae family, including pumpkin, melon and green pumpkin. Due to the increasing demand on the domestic market, the area under cucumber (protected areas) for fresh consumption has increased significantly over the last 5 years, but nevertheless in the last two years this product has experienced a trade deficit in terms of the trade balance. The high price of the imported cucumbers compared to the exported ones shows that Romania is forced to import at this price because it fails to ensure the needs of the domestic market, especially during the off season.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 19 ISSUE 1
Written by Emilia VECHIU, Maria DINCĂ

From an economic and social point of view, the interest for the non-wood forest resources has increased during the last couple of years. Due to its varied landscape, Romania has as its disposal, besides wood as the main forest resource, a large diversity of non-wood resources. As such, the most important non-wood forest products are forest fruits, edible mushrooms, game and medicinal plants. The present study intends to emphasize the most representative forest fruits from Neamț County and to describe their harvesting process management. In order to establish this, an analytical hierarchic process based on certain criteria was created with the help of specialists from the domain. As such, it has been observed that cherries, blueberries and raspberry from Neamț County have a high market potential, while the harvesting process is a complex one, either manually or mechanically.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 19 ISSUE 1
Written by Myroslav BOHIRA, Nazar STUPEN, Ruslana TARATULA

The course of Land reform in Ukraine is analyzed, its positive and negative results are revealed both in the issues of rational agricultural lands use, especially in solving the ecological component in land use and in the problems of social and economic development of rural territories. Legislative documents and subordinate acts of the Ukrainian state that regulate carrying out Land reform or have a direct relation to Land reform and other scholars’ research on this topic is the main database for conducting scientific studies. According to the authors, the conducted studies show that in the theoretical positions of Land reform all the problematic issues concerning the land use organization; mainly environmental components have not been taken into account. Moreover, the issues of the development of village infrastructure and raising the peasants’- landowners’ living standards have not been also taken into consideration. Generally, the goal of Land reform in Ukraine has not been achieved to the full extent. It has led to significant shortcomings in agricultural production and a decrease of Ukrainian peasants’ living standards. The scientific novelty of the article is the issue that it is indispensable to hold a national discussion of the theoretical foundations of the reform before carrying out the reform in the state, which affects more than half the population. The scientific approaches for state structures regarding correction of drawbacks in land use, which have been revealed in the course of carrying out Land reform, are developed and recommended and ways of solving some problems of rural territories development are suggested.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 19 ISSUE 1
Written by Agatha POPESCU

The paper analyzed the retail trade in Romania during the last decade, 2008-2017, pointing out the performance achieved by the top 10 retailers Kaufland, Carrefour, Lidl, Auchan, Mega Image, Profi, Metro, Selgros, Rewe and Cora Hypermarket, based on the number of stores, turnover, net profit, market share and average number of employees. Romanian market proved to be a good business environment for retailers as long as consumption is increasing determined by the growth of wages and reduction of VAT. Both hypermarkets, supermarkets, discount stores and minimarkets have appeared on Romania's map and their number continue to grow as expected in the near future. The number of square meters commercial space per inhabitant is enough high as long as Romanians like shopping. For this reason, the retailers have to develop new strategies to strengthen their business and cover much better consumers' needs. Important efforts should be made to develop the minimarket network in the smaller cities and even in the rural localities, the commercial space should be modernized and offer a pleasant and attractive environment for shopping, e-commerce should be extended as a modern purchasing alternative, the offer should be diversified including more Romanian products as preferred by consumers, organic products should be more visible on the shelves which have to offer healthy products to the clients, a more intensive advertising should be useful for a better information of the consumers and for increasing sales and profit of the retailers.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 19 ISSUE 1
Written by Agatha POPESCU

The paper analyzed the dynamics and the main trends in the world and the EU-28 trade with commodities in the period 2006-2107 using the WTO data. The data have been comparatively analyzed by regions, type of commodity groups mainly manufactured goods, and agro-food products, and also by Regional Trade Agreements, and in the top exporting and importing countries both at the world level and in the EU-28. World commodity trade have been developing in close connection with the economic growth, but it was affected by economic crisis, US dollar appreciation, low prices of commodities and fuels, inflation, yuan depreciation, low investments and other factors. In 2017, global trade succeeded to recover the exports of goods accounting USD 17.7 Trillion, being by 46.2 % higher than in 2006, while the imports were USD 18 Trillion, by 45.1 % more. The top traders of goods in the world are China, the EU-28,the USA, German, Japan, followed by United Kingdom, France, Republic of Korea, Italy, Netherlands Hong Kong China and Canada. Agro-food products represent 10 % of the world trade with goods and their volume is continuously growing, being commercialized by especially by the EU, USA, Netherlands, Germany, France, Brazil, China, Belgium, Spain, Italy, United Kingdom and Canada. Europe and Asia have the highest contribution to the global trade. The WTO 164 members are the key role in the world trade growth. The EU-28 was and still is an important "actor" in the international trade with manufactured goods and agro-food products. The EU top trading countries are: Germany, United Kingdom, France, Netherlands, Italy, Belgium, Spain, Poland, Austria, Sweden, Denmark, Czech Republic and Ireland. The development of a sustainable global trade requires new policies and strategies to support the economic growth and enhance trade with goods and services.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 19 ISSUE 1
Written by Elena DERUNOVA, Natal’ya KIREEVA, Olesya PRUSCHAK

The article deals with the problems of significant differentiation of the regions of Russia in terms of food security, which poses a threat to sustainable regional development and can lead to serious socio-political risks in the functioning of the national food system. Methodological approaches to the typology of regional agri-food systems based on a set of various criteria and indicators of food security, including independence, physical and economic accessibility of food, as well as stability of development, are proposed. It is proved that the use of criterion of food independence in the model of food security is appropriate only for development of the national food system. However, for regional agri-food systems, physical and economic accessibility of food for all population groups and stability of functioning of agri-food systems are of paramount importance. The degree of differentiation of individual RF subjects in terms of non-compliance with food safety criteria was evaluated, which made it possible to identify regions vulnerable to food security. The developed methodological and methodical provisions can serve as a basis for making management decisions in the field of food safety at the federal and regional levels.

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