Transformarea industriei agroalimentare în Republica Moldova

Abstract

Agrifood industry in the Republic of Moldova have undergone significant changes in the past decades. Companies and collective farms have been privatized, markets liberalized, and economies integrated into global food systems. As a result of liberalization and privatization processes the state-controlled vertical integration in the agrifood industry had collapsed. Latter on, private vertical coordination systems have emerged and are growing rapidly as a response to consumer demand for food quality and safety on the one hand and the farms’ production constraints caused by factor market imperfections. The main drivers of the integration processes are private business operators and traders. However the efficiency of the newly emerged food value chains is still low. In this paper we (a) demonstrate the importance of the agrifoodindustry in the Republic of Moldova and the most recent changes inside of this sector, (b) analyze the main impediments in the development of the agrifood value chains and (c) provide proposals to foster agrifood industry development.