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Major Romanian farmers: Let's start cultivating the 3.5 million hectares where weeds are growing now

Autor: Gabriel Razi

02.03.2011, 09:00 26

Adrian Porumboiu, Mihai Anghel, Culita Tarata and StefanPoienaru, four of the biggest agricultural producers, say Romania'schance in the current global context, where prices of agriculturalproducts registered the most spectacular leap of the past 50 years,is to cultivate the agricultural land now full of weeds.

"Romania must come up with incentives to determine farmers towork the 3.5 million hectares of untilled land. Agriculture is thedriver of the Romanian economy. The financial, economic and moralcrises will be followed by a food and energy crisis," says CulitaTarata, who owns, through the 60,000-hectare farm of TCE 3 Brazi,the largest area of agricultural land worked by a Romaniancompany.

On the other hand, major farmers say they do not fully benefitfrom the rising prices for agricultural products as they have tosell very quickly after harvesting.

Stefan Poienaru, who exploits 12,000 hectares of agriculturalland through Agrofam Holding Fetesti, believes the high prices willto a certain extent allow Romanian farmers to capitalise on theirbusinesses.

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