In the first two months of this year, Romania imported agro-food products worth 1.069 billion Euro; up 9.4% over the same period in 2016. At the same time, exports increased by only 1.2% during the period at hand, according to data provided by the National Institute of Statistics (NSI), at the request of News.ro.
Cereals dominate the structure of exports, with over 311 million Euro and a volume totalling 1.4 million tonnes; up 7.8% over the same period in 2016. Cereal imports reached a value of 62 million lei (13.58 million Euro) in the first two months of this year, compared to 55.8 million lei (12.22 million Euro) in the same period in 2016.
Seeds exports reached a value of 115 million Euro in the first two months of this year; up 3% over the same period in 2016, while imports exceeded 70 million Euro.
Romania also imported vegetables worth 84 million Euro in those first two months of 2017; up 12% over the same period in 2016. The volume of vegetables imported by Romania amounted to 111,000 tonnes.
Lastly, the value of fruit imported in the first two months of the year reached 103 million Euro; up 11.6%, while fruit exports were worth 6 million Euro.
In terms of volume, Romania imported over 155,000 tonnes of fruit during January-February 2017 and exported 1,400 tonnes.
Source: alba24.ro
