Abstract
Romania is rich in fertile land, but thousands of hectares of land are still uninhabited. Part of the land has been sold to foreigners because the government of the country cannot encourage domestic investments. For millions of Romanian citizens living in the countryside, the land is the place where all kinds of products grow. Although almost half of the country’s population is engaged in agriculture, the share of the agricultural sector is not more than 10 % of GDP as most farms are closed. In addition, while nearly one in four Romanians is engaged in agriculture to survive, modernization of this sector has not become a government priority. Since the modernization of agriculture requires large investments, the government has opened the agricultural sector to foreigners and ensured that the financial support it cannot afford is provided by foreign investors. In this study, the sectoral characteristics of agriculture in Romania, agricultural policies applied with its structure are analyzed and solutions are offered to the problems. As a result of the study, it was concluded that agriculture, which is the backbone of the country, has not been modernized from the communist era until today, agricultural productivity has gradually decreased and Romanian farmers have started to lose their workforce in their own lands.