“There are fewer and fewer of us left in Romania. People are either going abroad or out of existence and what can we do with so much wheat, so much bread? It is exported to those countries where population is still growing and needs more food,” Mihai Anghel, owner of Cerealcom Dolj, one of the largest agricultural producers and grain traders in Romania, told ZF.
The largest companies in the business of wholesale of grain, seeds, animal feeds and unmanufactured tobacco are ADM Romania Trading, Ameropa Grain, Cargill Agricultura, Glencore Agriculture Romania, COFCO International Romania, Brisegroup, CHS Agritrade Romania, Cerealcom Dolj, Bunge Danube Trading, Monsanto Romania and others.
The top ten companies posted RON15 billion lei revenue in 2016 or 60% of the total revenue of the companies in this business. (EUR1=RON4.5981)
(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)