The minister said the average size of a plot of farmed land in Romania is 3.45 hectares, which he considers extremely small.
He also said that farms owned by individuals have an area of 1.91 hectares, on average. The average area of farms run as a company is around 190 hectares. The state should encourage the creation of farms close to this size, he said.
There are around 3.85 million farms in the country, but only 31,000 are managed as legal entities, the minister added.