At the top, it competes with the integrated agricultural cooperative Tara Mea in Vaslui, which has nearly 5,000 members, and the agricultural cooperative Dobrogea Sud in Constanta, which works about 20,000 hectares in total.

The Aaylex Agro co-operative established in 2009 has seen an almost year-on-year increase in turnover, the exception being 2019, when its revenue decreased by 2%, but its profit increased by 13%, reaching RON870,000 then. By contrast, in 2021 it had posted RON940,000 profit, half of the 2020 level, public data show.

(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)