INTEGRATION OF VÂLCEA COUNTY AT REGIONAL LEVEL IN TERMS OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION (2015-2019)

Abstract

The study follows and highlights the evolution of agricultural production at the level of Valcea County, in the context of the realities existing at national and regional level. In addition to the value of total agricultural production, according to existing data, its distribution by source of origin is also presented: crop production, livestock production and the agricultural services sector.

For Vâlcea County, the vegetal production is predominant – 60.41% (834,420.20 thousand lei compared to 1,381,239.60 thousand lei), followed by the animal production – 39.31% (543,015.20 thousand lei) and respectively the agricultural services – 0.28% (3,804.20 thousand lei) followed. At the county level, the variation amplitude of total agricultural production was 393,078 thousand lei, a value that represented 32.70% of the minimum level of the indicator (2016) and 24.64% compared to the maximum level (2019). For vegetable production, the registered amplitude reached 339,264 thousand lei, a level that represented 50.39% of the minimum term (2015) and was lower than the maximum term (2019) by 66.49%. In the case of livestock production, the amplitude of production variation was 72,190 thousand lei, a level that represented 14.25% of the value of the minimum term (2017) and 12.48% compared to the maximum term (2019). If we refer to agricultural services, there is a variation amplitude of the indicator of 3,506 thousand lei, a value that exceeded by 49.13% the minimum level of the indicator (2016) and represented 59.86% compared to the maximum level (2015).