ORGANIC AGRICULTURE IN ROMANIA - AN IMPORTANT RESOURCE OF QUALITY RAW MATERIALS FOR INNOVATIVE FOODS

Abstract

Organic foods, functional foods, Food supplements are designed and built from organic agricultural raw materials and natural food additives. In the last ten years, in Romania, there has been a significant increase in ecologically certified areas, an increase in organic cereal crops, areas cultivated with green harvested plants and permanent crops (orchards, vines, fruit bushes). These increases facilitate the obtaining of foods with high nutritional density and an increased processing efficiency. All these are part of the Sustainable Development Strategy of Romania in the period 2020-2030, approved in EC.