The leader and shoe sector is an important traditional sector with a particularly cheap labor force. Imports of hides and leather products is liberalized as well as exports of leather goods. The furniture industry is one of the most important ones in Eastern Europe. It is producing a range of components destined to automate production processes. There is also a long tradition in shipbuilding.
Irrigation is vital to a major part of Romania's farmland.
With 3.1 million hectares of irrigable largest area. Overall grain production in 1996 amounted to 14.25 million tones.