A FEW CONSIDERATIONS ON THE INVESTMENTS IN THE AGRIFOOD SECTOR OF THE REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA.

For all countries, agriculture is the strongest factor in the harmonization of economic development. In our country, the agricultural activity also has a significant contribution to the gross domestic product, even though this contribution was down from 36.14% in 1990 to 15.23% in 2014, when the share of this branch was 2.9 times higher than in Romania (5.36%). In our country's agriculture, significant changes have been produced generated by the agrarian reform that "can be efficient only on the condition of the development of market relations". The starting point in the efficient development of any branch of the national economy, of agriculture implicitly, in the market relations conditions, is the emergence of new generations of products, of adequate technologies for obtaining these products, which need significant investments. In this context, the present paper is investigating the current as well as the needed level of investments in the agri-food sector. As a result of the analysis, several proposals that may contribute to the improvement of the current situation are presented. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]