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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, Nela-Loredana CARABA-MEITA

The paper analyzed price elasticity of production for short run for wheat, maize, sunflower, milk, pork, beef and honey in Romania and in its eight micro-regions in the period 2016-2018. Elasticity coefficients were determined using Cook's formula. At Romania's level, the price growth by 1 % will determine the increase of output for wheat, maize, milk, and pork, but lower than price growth rate. Considering that other factors of influence are constant, the growth of the acquisition price will favor the increase of production in the territory of Romania as follows: for wheat in NW, SE, Bucharest Ilfov and S W Oltenia micro-regions; for maize in almost all the micro-regions except Bucharest-Ilfov and West; for sunflower in BIF and SW Oltenia; for pork, in the Center, SE, S Muntenia, SW Oltenia and West regions; for beef only in NW and NE regions; for milk in NW and S Muntenia; for honey in the Center, NE, S Muntenia, and SW Oltenia.

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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, Alina MARCUTA, Cristina TINDECHE, Carmen ANGELESCU, Liviu MARCUTA

The paper analyzed net profit and profitability of a panel of six commercial companies (C1-C6) raising dairy cows and supplying milk on the capital market in the period 2009-2018, based on the data from Balance Sheets which were processed using fixed index, descriptive statistics, points method, regression modeling, correlations and determination coefficients. All the companies registered an increased net profit in the analyzed period except C3 which registered losses in 2010, 2012, 2013 and 2018 and C5 with losses in 2016. The highest annual profit average was achieved by C4 (Lei 1.19 Million) and the lowest one by C5 (Lei 0.3 Million). Net profit margin varied between 23 %, the highest level in C5, and 1.1 %, the lowest level in C3. The highest average net profit obtained per one million used assets was Lei 370 thousand in C5 and the lowest level was Lei 6 thousand in C3.For one million equity, the return of net profit accounted for Lei 0.42 million in C5 and Lei 30 thousand in C3. The total costs of the firms increased influencing the net profit. For Lei one million expenses, the average net profit varied between Lei 310 thousand in C5 and 20 thousand in C3. The total number of points received for each analyzed indicator led to the following classification of the companies, in the decreasing order of profitability: C5, C4,C2, C6,C1 and C3. The F test confirmed that the linear regression models attested that costs have an influence on net profit. However, only in case of C5 and C2, the variation of net profit was caused by total costs in a higher proportion than 50%, and in case of C4 and C1 with about 31 %. The correlation coefficients reflected a high positive connection between net profit and costs in C2 ( r = 0.994) and C6 (r = 0.711). The profitability analysis in these companies emphasized that even though they are in top agribusiness in dairy farming, they could get losses in a few years as net profit is influenced by costs. As a final conclusion, to increase net profit and profitability, the decision makers have to set up a development strategy of the business based on a deep financial analysis and prospecting the opportunities which could assure economic growth in the future.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 20 ISSUE 1
Written by Veronica PRISACARU, Alina CARADJA

The purpose of the present paper is to elucidate the significance of the activity of the sectoral committees for vocational training in order to make the professional education's offer interact with the labor market's needs as well as of the problems related to the activity of the sectoral committees in the Republic of Moldova. In order to achieve the stated objective, the following research methods were used: synthesizing the theoretical approaches and good international practices in rationalizing the communication between the bidders and beneficiaries of the professional education's offer; investigating the normative framework of the Republic of Moldova regarding the activity of the sectoral committees for vocational training; analyzing the results and problems related to the functioning of the sectoral committees in the Republic of Moldova; conducting an opinion survey of employers; formulating conclusions and reasoning. The authors' conclusions and recommendations refer to the directions for improving the activity of the sectoral committees for vocational training in the Republic of Moldova in order to enhance the effects of the interaction of the professional education system with the business environment.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 20 ISSUE 1
Written by Cosmin Alin POPESCU, Mihai Valentin HERBEI, Florin SALA

The present study used satellite images analysis to evaluation and characterization of land spatial variability in the Livezile-Dolat Protected Area, Timis County, Romania. Based on the spectral information, the indices NDVI, SAVI, NBR, GLI, GNDVI and CIgreen were calculated. On the basis of ISODATA algorithm, an unsupervised analysis was performed, and 15 classes resulted. The coefficient of variation (CV) expressed a high variability in terms of the surfaces size on the set of 15 obtained classes (CVClass=43.2658). Based on the NDVI index, 8 groups of values were obtained, covering an area of 6,542.801 ha; 9 groups of values covering the surface of 6,555.21 ha in the case of SAVI, and 6 groups of values covering the area of 6,542.955 ha in the case of CIgreen were obtained. Data series for each index studied (654,361 values per series) were analyzed to evaluate the variance (V) and coefficient of variation (CV). The highest value of the variance was identified for the CIgreen index (VCIgreen=0.892885), and the lowest at the GLI index (VGLI=0.001912), the other indices having intermediate values of the variance (VGNDVI=0.013837, VNDVI=0.028027, VSAVI=0.063048). Based on the values of the coefficient of variation (CV), a high degree of spatial variability was found in the set of GLI index values (CVGLI=80.40968) and the lowest spatial variability in the GNDVI index data set (CVGNDVI=23.85455), and intermediate values for the other studied indices (CVNDVI=28.76762, CVSAVI=28.76861, CVCIgreen=57.57606).

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

This paper represents a study on the evolution of agricultural holdings in small individual peasant households in Romania and their importance in sustainable agriculture. Agriculture is one of the basic branches of the national economy. Sustainable agriculture involves obtaining healthy and quality foods, conserving natural resources and preserving biodiversity. Small peasant households generally meet these requirements of sustainable agriculture, given that they generally have small areas of agricultural land near the house used mainly as family gardens that are worked more with hand tools or small machining which do not destroy soil structure by compaction, and chemicals for fighting diseases, pests and weeds are used little or no use. Also, natural fertilizers are usually used and the supplementation with macro and chemical microelements is done in balanced doses. Based on data from the Institute of Statistics, between 2002 - 2016 there is an increase of agricultural holdings in small peasant farms between 2002-2010 (in 2002 and 2010 the two General Agricultural Census took place) and a decrease between the years 2010-2016.

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

The paper is based on the study of various reports and different type of articles regarding the EU poultry meat production and poultry meat’s quality. In order to determine the Romanian consumers' perception regarding the quality of poultry meat, a questionnaire was prepared which was completed during February-April 2019 by 240 people from Sibiu County. Chicken meat is in the top of the preferences of Sibiu consumers. Consumers associate chicken meat with healthy meat from poultry fed with cereals, with a low-fat content. The respondents consider that the chicken meat contributes to maintaining the health status.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 20 ISSUE 1
Written by Constantin NICOLAE, Adrian CHIRA, Lenuța CHIRA, Ligia ION

Modern quality standards require a series of steps meant to contribute to having a diet consisting of high-quality fresh fruit, regardless of season. Their preservation is an essential technological stage in the maintaining of qualitative and quantitative food attributes. Keeping this in mind, we conducted comparative research on different local and international pear cultivars with the aim to rank fruit in terms of quality, and testing two preservation methods in different environments. The distribution of experimental options are as follows: V1- Fruit storage in environmental conditions, at 290C and 75% relative humidity, under modified atmosphere, by using a plastic semipermeable pellicle; V2-Fruit storage in refrigerated condition, at 40C and 90% relative humidity, under modified atmosphere, by using an plastic semipermeable pellicle. Observations and physical and chemical determinations regarding the evolution of the quantitative and qualitative changes during the preservation process were made every 30 and 60 days respectively. Following a fruit tasting process, the 'Red Williams’, 'Abate Fetel’ and 'Nashi’ cultivars were deemed “extra” class, whereas 'Williams’ and 'Carmen’ were deemed class I. Preserving period of fruit varied depending on the cultivar and the experimental method used. The V1 storage option showed greater weight loss and decreased biochemical components decreased more, with different values depending on the cultivar and the duration of storage. For V2, the lowest amount of vitamin C loss was recorded for the 'Red Williams’ cultivar. 'Carmen’ proved to be the most resistant cultivar because it showed the lowest average weight loss and pulp consistency.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 20 ISSUE 1
Written by Daniel Valeriu ULIU, Marius VLADU

To implement the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) in the Member States, the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) was created by the European Union. The EAFRD finances the National Rural Development Program (PNDR), which in order to reach the priority objectives of Romania decides the financing lines. The National Program for Rural Development deals with the provision of non-reimbursable funds from the Government of Romania and the European Union for the development of rural areas in Romania. The increase and modernization of the meat processing capacities through the use of the funds offered by NRDP have as an objective the increase of the added value of the agricultural products of animal origin (meat processing). Sub-measure 4.2 ("Support for investment in the processing / marketing and / or development of agricultural products") is concerned with the modernization and creation of processing units and the introduction of new technologies in this field. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the situation of investments in meat processing units in the North-West Development Region of Romania, between 2015-2018, where 9 projects were financed (eligible value of 24,413,529 euros), representing 22% of the total, of 42 projects financed at national level (eligible value of 98,084,071 euros), by sub-measure 4.2, of the National Rural Development Program 2014-2020. From the correlation of the amounts invested (eligible value) from the counties of this area with the value of the total agricultural production (the live weight of the animals destined for slaughter), it follows that the projects were done randomly, independently of the animal agricultural production.

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

Risk management is an essential part of the farm management process. Nowadays every farm has to pay a special attention to the risk management in order to make the right investments and limit the losses. The grain sector is well developed in Bulgaria and has a great contribution to the gross added value from all agricultural products. This study aims to examine the tools and strategies that are used by the Bulgarian grain producers to reduce the risk in their farms. As a result, the most used tools and combinations of instruments for managing the risk are examined, as well as the connections between the different tools and strategies.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 20 ISSUE 1
Written by Oana Steliana BURLACU, Maria Magdalena TUREK RAHOVEANU

The sustainable development is a process of continuous and permanent improvement, learning and perfecting, and the introduction of sustainable development policies into a society or company guarantees the creation of sustainable (not only immediate) value and consequently long-term benefits. In the age of knowledge, each organization is constantly changing. The success of the organization depends on how the crises that occur during this period are managed. An important factor in managing these crises is the intellectual capital. During the process of assimilating the intellectual capital, a transformation of the individual's identity is also realized. Identity transformation is an important social process that employs dissonance, attributions and divides the role of expectations. In this paper we want to highlight the concept of intellectual capital, which is it role into organizations and societies and which are the benefits for institutional health. intellectual capital, sustainable development, institutional health

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