This is one of the few sectors where the absorption rate was 100%, while in agriculture, the sector which has EUR10 billion from the EU for investments between 2007 and 2013, around 30% of the funds were absorbed.
Murfatlar, the largest player by turnover, attracted EUR15.6 million between 2007 and 2011 for replanting around 1,000 hectares of vine. The reconversion of vine is necessary because a large part of the vine-growing area in Romania is covered by hybrid vine, and wine made from this vine cannot be sold.
Romania is no. 10 in the world’s ranking of wine makers by exploited surface, with 180,000 to 200,000 ha.
(English version by Daniela Stoican)