WINE PRODUCTION IN ROMANIA – DEVELOPMENTS AND TRENDS FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF FOOD SECURITY AND SAFETY

In the last 30 years, the transition from the centrally-planned economy system to the rigours, requirements and constraints of the market economy has generated significant structural and behavioural changes at national level, which had an impact both on the performance and competitiveness of national economy and on the capacity to ensure food security and safety for the population. Like in most activity sectors from agri-food economy, yet with higher intensities, the wine sector in Romania, both the primary and the secondary (processing) sector, has faced numerous problems for the last 30 years, with a direct effect on the capacity to ensure food security and safety at this level. From this perspective, the present approach aims to carry out a diagnosis of the wine production in Romania, in terms of its capacity to meet the domestic consumption needs and valorise the obtained production.