RAPESEED MARKET IN ROMANIA. THE DETERMINANTS REGARDING THE DECISION TO CULTIVATE RAPESEED

Abstract

The paper presents an analysis on market elements that can influence the decision to cultivate rapeseed. We have studied the market features as estimators on market supply-demand ratio (the annual production, imports and exports of rapeseed) and the area under rapeseed production as concrete estimator on decision to cultivate. Inter-conditionality analysis between estimators of market and the estimators of decision to cultivate, made for a time interval of 12 years (2002-2013) emphasized that, in the Romanian market of rape, one of the significant factors influencing the decision to growth (taken in the previous year at seeding) is the value of exports of rape in the harvest year. It also revealed that in recent years, it has generated a system of specialized farms in rapeseed production associated to the international market requirements. It also highlighted the fact that domestic market of rapeseed (understood as internal consumption) does not influence the decision to cultivate rapeseed, it behaving more as a residual market in relation to the export market.