Agricultura (Nov 2011)

THE ECONOMIC EFFECTIVENESS OF SEED PRODUCTION IN WINTER WHEAT

  • Aurelia Marian

DOI
https://doi.org/10.15835/arspa.v77i1-2.7219
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 77, no. 1-2

Abstract

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The plan is for production and multiplication of the institutionalized seed. The process of transition of agriculture towards the market economy generates new and complex problems regarding both seed production and the access of small and medium-sized agricultural exploitations to high-quality seed, considering its high price. There are two phenomena, which reflect in the dynamics and evolution of the price of agricultural products (including wheat), and reaches its highest right before the new crop. The calculations regarding the production and multiplication of the seeds of a certain cultivar of winter wheat is a compulsory procedure, as seed production follows a specific methodology and technology, genetically explained.