“The world’s markets are asking for ecological products and we’re waiting for subsidies to allow us to produce them,” said Cioceanu.
He added that Romania could potentially produce ecological products that would sell for EUR1-1.5 billion on foreign markets.
Not every farmer attending the conference agreed with Cioceanu.
“Were we to focus on ecological products, then, 50 years from now, probably half of Romania’s population would have no food,” said one farmer.