In addition, seed potato farmers have no workable mechanism to channel their products to small producers who now account for most production. Meanwhile, agriculturalists at the Ministry of Agriculture and Food say a new program, currently being considered by the cabinet, will upgrade technology and help maintain supplies of high-grade seed potatoes. Zaveryukha argued, however, that the 35 million tons matched consumption and that there will be enough of the crop for food and processing. Pop and ministry officials put the 1994 grain crop at 19 million tons compared to 15.5 million tons in 1993. Thus, Romania is not expected to import any grain in 1994, and the country has surpluses of meat, dairy products and eggs.
Pop attributes Romania's agricultural boom to the redistribution of land to private farmers.
93 percent of the country's 15 million hectares of farmland are now in private hands.