Project leader: Research Institute for Agricultural Economics and Rural Development – ICEADR
Director: Dr.ing. LAPUSAN Alexandru (e-mail office@iceadr.ro)
Project director: Dr.ing. BEREVOIANU Rozi Liliana (e-mail: berevoianu.rozi@iceadr.ro)
Partner 1: Buzau Vegetable Research and Development Station
Director: Dr.ing. VLAD Constantin (e–mail:vlad.constantin44@yahoo.com)
Project manager: Dr.ing. TEODORESCU Eliza (e-mail: neicu_eliza@yahoo.com)
Project start year: 2015
Project end year: 2018
Total project amount: 962,850 lei
PROJECT SUMMARY
The project aims to substantiate from a technical and economic point of view a system for developing production costs and estimating capitalization prices, the degree of profitability of horticultural products by production levels and calculating the gross margin per product unit, so that under the conditions of optimizing production structures, applied technologies and financial support granted, a high economic efficiency is reached, in line with the performances of the European Union. The degree of complexity of the project derives from the use of its own calculation methodology, with new elements, processed from the techniques and procedures used in the EU. The methodology used within the project will be based on the substantiation of technologies and budgets per product, of technical and economic indicators specific to the products horticultural crops for conventional and organic agriculture. In the substantiation of production technologies, the use of framework technologies from the country’s technical institutes is opted for, and the structure of horticultural crops is in the field and protected areas, with average yields possible to achieve under the conditions of compliance with the designed technologies.
IMPLEMENTATION PLAN
Stage 1: Conceptual approaches to conventional and organic agriculture in the horticultural sector
Stage 2: Development of research methodologies for vegetable products (field tomatoes and protected areas, field cucumbers and protected areas, cornichons, carrots, ardeigras, cabbage, cauliflower) in conventional and organic farming systems – forecasts 2016 – 2017
Stage 3: Development of research methodologies for field and greenhouse flowers, medicinal plants in conventional and organic farming systems – forecasts 2016 – 2017
Stage 4: Development of research methodologies for vegetable products (field tomatoes and protected areas, field cucumbers and protected areas, cornichons, carrots, ardeigras, cabbage, cauliflower) in conventional and organic farming systems – forecasts 2017 – 2018
Stage 5: Development of research methodologies for field and greenhouse flower products, medicinal plants in conventional and organic farming systems – forecasts 2017 – 2018
Stage 6: Development of research methodologies for vegetable products (field tomatoes and protected areas, field cucumbers and protected areas, cornichons, carrots, ardeigras, cabbage, cauliflower) in conventional and organic farming systems – forecasts 2018 – 2019
Stage 7: Development of research methodologies for field and greenhouse flower products, medicinal plants in conventional and organic farming systems – forecasts 2018 – 2019
GENERAL OBJECTIVES
Technical and economic substantiation of methodologies for developing production costs and estimating market prices, the degree of profitability of vegetable crops, flowers and medicinal plants at production levels and calculation of the gross margin per product unit for conventional and organic agriculture, so that under the conditions of optimizing production structures, applied technologies and financial support granted, high economic efficiency is achieved, in line with the performance of the European Union.
EXPECTED RESULTS
General concepts and principles of conventional and organic agriculture; the status of fundamental and applied research in the field.
Substantiation of the methodology for the estimated determination of production technologies of vegetable crops, flowers and medicinal plants in conventional and organic agriculture systems.
Substantiation of the methodology for the estimated determination of income and expense budgets of vegetable crops, flowers and medicinal plants in conventional and organic agriculture systems.
Estimates of production costs, capitalization prices, profitability per product unit of vegetable crops, flowers and medicinal plants in conventional and organic agriculture systems.
Comparative analysis on the economic efficiency of vegetable crops, flowers and medicinal plants in conventional and organic farming systems.
Publications on production costs, estimation of market prices, profitability of vegetable crops, flowers and medicinal plants by production levels
