KPMG and ZF «Make Growth Happen – Strategic Resilience as a Competitive Advantage» The last few years have brought profound changes in agriculture, which has turned from a relatively predictable sector into a volatile model, and the discussions are increasingly related to liquidity and efficiency, said Liviu Dobre, general manager, Agricover Holding at the KPMG and ZF conference «Make Growth Happen – Strategic Resilience as a Competitive Advantage». «If before we were talking about agriculture as a sector where the model was relatively predictable, now we have gone to an extreme where the model in agriculture is structurally volatile. We have climate change, but we are also impacted by disruptions in distribution chains. We are affected by volatility, by prices and you have to see an agricultural producer, a farmer as someone who is caught in a vise». Liviu Dobre explained that, for an agribusiness company, there is, on the one hand, the area of income, which is dependent on the stock market quotations of cereals, and on the opposite side, a large part of the costs of establishing crops are related to stock market quotations, such as oil, in the case of the diesel it uses, of fertilizers and implicitly of the gas that is behind the fertilizers. «It happened that we are in an agricultural year in which product quotations are at a historic low, and cost quotations are at their maximum». The director of Agricover Holding added that, until 3 years ago, the only concern and everything that was talked about, including in the public space, was production, how do we maximize production. Today the discussions are more related to liquidity and efficiency. «We, by DNA, are a hybrid between an entrepreneur and a corporation, and our DNA screams at us every day that every crisis is an opportunity. We are specialized and that helps us. and we are not afraid to move when others are perhaps cautious. Specialization brings you a series of advantages in terms of risk management, because we are mainly talking about lending, whether it is financial or commercial. Specialization brings you the trust of partners, banks, financial institutions international companies, who understand our business model and specialization and make our resources available».
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