The cultivated area in 2021, compared to 2020, decreased for cereals for grains, dried pulses, potatoes and vegetables and increased for oilseed crops.
Compared to the previous year, the crop production increased in 2021 for cereals for grains, oilseed crops and dried pulses and decreased for potatoes and vegetables.
Table 1: Cultivated area and production of main crops
| Differences (±) | ||||||
| Cultivated area | Production | year 2021 | ||||
| -thou ha- | -thou tonnes- | compared to 2020 | ||||
| 20201) | 20212) | 20201) | 20212) | -thou ha- | -thou tonnes- | |
| Cereals for grains | 5338 | 5273 | 18154 | 27196 | -65 | +9042 |
| of which: | ||||||
| -wheat | 2155 | 2167 | 6392 | 10325 | +12 | +3933 |
| -barley and two-row barley | 442 | 435 | 1141 | 1874 | -7 | +733 |
| -oats | 101 | 87 | 197 | 210 | -14 | +13 |
| -maize grains | 2537 | 2493 | 10097 | 14445 | -44 | +4348 |
| Dried pulses | 107 | 82 | 122 | 168 | -25 | +46 |
| Oilseed crops | 1679 | 1695 | 3229 | 4526 | +16 | +1297 |
| of which: | ||||||
| -sunflower | 1143 | 1112 | 2123 | 2818 | -31 | +695 |
| -soya beans | 169 | 140 | 322 | 347 | -29 | +25 |
| -rape | 363 | 438 | 780 | 1353 | +75 | +573 |
| Potatoes | 98 | 84 | 1601 | 1378 | -14 | -223 |
| Vegetables3) | 201 | 195 | 3483 | 3440 | -6 | -43 |
1) Rectified data compared to those previously published.
2) Provisional data.
3) It includes the cultivated area and the production of vegetables grown in fields, greenhouses, solaria and kitchen gardens.
Year 2021 compared to 2020
An increase in the yields of the main crops was registered in 2021.
Cereals for grains
The area cultivated with cereals for grains decreased by 1.2%, while the production increased by 49.8% compared to the previous year, mainly due to the yields per hectare (average production per hectare).
In 2021, the area cultivated with maize grains represented 47.3% of the area cultivated with cereals for grains and the area cultivated with wheat, 41.1%.
The production of cereals increased mainly due to the growth of 61.5% of the wheat production which held a share of 38.0% in the production of cereals.
Dried pulses
The production increased compared to the previous year by 37.7%, mainly due to the increase of the yield per hectare.
Oilseed crops
The production increased by 40.2% and the cultivated area by 1.0%. Increases in production were registered for rape (+73.5%), sunflower (+32.7%) and soya beans (+7.8%).
Potatoes
The cultivated area decreased by 14.3% and the production by 13.9%.
Vegetables
The production decreased by 1.2% due to the decrease of the cultivated area.
Table 2: The area of bearing vineyards and of fruit bearing tree plantations, grape production and fruit production
| Differences (±) | ||||||
| Area | Production | year 2021 | ||||
| -thou ha- | -thou tonnes- | compared to 2020 | ||||
| 20201) | 20212) | 20201) | 20212) | -thou ha- | -thou tonnes- | |
| Bearing vineyards 3) | 167 | 165 | 936 | 995 | -2 | +59 |
| Fruit bearing tree plantations (fruit bearing orchards) | 136 | 137 | 826 | 917 | +1 | +91 |
1) Rectified data compared to those previously published.
2) Provisional data.
3) It includes the cultivated area and the production of grapes from vineyards grown in fields and in kitchen gardens.
Grapes
In 2021, the production of grapes increased by 6.3% compared to the previous year due to the increase of the yield per hectare (+7.6%) and the cultivated area decreased by 1.2%.
Fruit bearing tree plantations (fruit bearing orchards)
The fruit production in orchards increased by 11.0% compared to the previous year due to the increase of the yields per hectare but also of the cultivated areas.
The cultivated areas and the productions for wheat, maize grains, sunflower and potatoes, in Romania and in some Member States of the European Union, in 2021 – provisional data
Chart 1: Cultivated area (thou hectares)
Source: Eurostat
Note: For Netherlands, 2020 data were used for wheat. Chart data in (xls) format
Chart 2: Production (thou tonnes)
Source: Eurostat
Note: For Netherlands, 2020 data were used for wheat; for France, Poland and Slovakia, 2020 data were used for potatoes. Chart data in (xls) format
Romania compared to some Member States of the European Union in 2021
- For maize grains and sunflower, Romania ranked first both for cultivated area and production;
- For wheat, Romania ranked fourth for cultivated area and production after France, Germany and
- For potatoes, Romania ranked sixth for cultivated area after Germany, Poland, Netherlands, France and Belgium and eighth for production after Germany, France, Poland, Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark and