Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 15 ISSUE 2
Written by Agatha POPESCU, Reta CONDEI
The paper analyzed Romania's employment in agriculture, forestry and fishery in the period 2007-2012 using the empirical provided by the National Institute of Statistics and Eurostat and the specific methods for such a study: statistical parameters, fixed index method, and comparison method. In 2012, in Romania's agriculture were employed 2,682 thousand persons, representing 64.07 % of the employed rural population and 28.95 % of the employment in the economy, the highest level in the EU where the average accounted for 4.7 %. Of the employed persons in Romania's agriculture, 53.5 % were sole holders, 45 % family members and 1.5 % non family regular workers. Also, 53.1 % were men. Romania came on the last position in the EU-27 for the people employed full time in agriculture (0.9%) and on the penultimate position for 83 % employed persons in small holdings SO
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