TOMATO PRICE AT EUROPEAN UNION LEVEL (2015-2017)

Activity in agricultural production - vegetable and animal, in terms of the basic condition - profitability and economic efficiency - is directly related to prices operating on the free market. The prices highlight the relationships of agricultural holdings with upstream and downstream branches. The economic efficiency of tomato crops is very different depending on the cultivation system and within it, the applied agrotechnics, respectively the productive performance of cultivars, the degree of mechanization and automation of technological sequences, material consumption, etc. In order to highlight the evolution of the price, it is analyzed in the context of the phenomena manifested at regional level, during the period (2015-2017). At regional level, the evolution of the indicator is uneven, a phenomenon that is also manifested for the vast majority of component states (Austria, Czech Republic, Croatia, Denmark, France, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Hungary). There are also states characterized by upward developments (Belgium, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Romania, Slovakia), as well as countries where the indicator has evolved downward (Bulgaria, Sweden)