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Taking under consideration the importance of fruits in human food, this article aims to follow the evolution of surfaces, productions, annual average fruit consumption, the import and export in Romania compared to the E.U. with the purpose of evaluating the sector as well as their necessity in human food. The increasing predisposition of the annual average consumption starting 2011 is due to the people's orientation towards a healthy food based on fresh fruits and vegetables, which makes one of the elements necessary for a balanced life. Human consumption represented the main destination of the inland consumption (97%) in 2014/2015 as well as in the previous years. The import value has reached a maximum level of 2,14 times (2016) compared to reference year (2010). The fruit imports increase year by year, exceeding exports, because the fruit productions in the last years have been of low quality which is why they have been sent to the food industry in order to be processed.

Every year the European Union grants a financial support to the agricultural sector of over 47 billion Euro, thus contributing to the completion of specific goals of the Common Agricultural Policy. The distribution of that EU funding towards the farmers from the member states is done according to the economical dimension of the exploitations, not according to the production level. In this study we intended to analyze the subsidies given to Romania after the admission to the EU compared to other member states. For a detailed analysis of the subsidies, quantitative as well as qualitative, we have taken account of the agricultural exploitations classification according to the economical dimension.