♦ Romania imported in 2024, from January to November, about 92,000 tons of tomatoes, ie almost 400 trucks, worth 148 million euros, and exported only 2,300 tonnes, worth 3 million Euro, which generated a deficit of 145 million euros, according to ZF calculations based on the NIS data.
Thus, the tomatoes have reached the top ten agri -food products that created deficit last year, although, only through the Tomata program, since 2017, over 1.87 billion lei have been allocated from the state budget to support the increase of production in Protected spaces – greenhouses and solariums. «Horticulture must be supported and would really value the country. If we produce tomatoes from May to October, there would be enough for us and we could even export. The surfaces we have with solariums are 4,500 hectares, but we should double for domestic consumption, and for export even more, ”says Marius Petrache, general manager of Marcoser, a company that cultivates three hectares with vegetables in the field and In the solariums in Matca, the largest vegetable basin in the country. He is a doctor in horticulture, specialized in the cultures of early vegetables in greenhouses and solariums: tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers.
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