Impactul pandemiei Covid-19 in contextul modificarilor structurale din sectorul agricol al Republicii Moldova

Abstract

In this paper, it is examined the potential impact of the Covid 19 pandemy, aggravated by the severe draught from 2020 in the context of tendencies of structural modifications in the agricultural sector of the Republic of Moldova. There are examined, in an evolutionary perspective, determining factors of a crisis with negative long-term impact, on the basis of the situation recorded in 2020, and which affects especially the small and middle-size producers. They refer the problem of access to market, access to finance and vulnerability in the face of natural hazards, and also the cumulated defficiencies, at the level of the system of policies and regulations that affect the intervention capacity and the efficiency of the support granted to the agricultural sector.