RESEARCH ON THE ASSOCIATION OF FRUIT GROWERS IN ROMANIA.

Taking into account the fact that the trade balance with fruits, in the case of Romania, presents an accentuated deficit, which worsens from one year to another. The main solution for this sector is the association of fruit growers, but their association is poorly developed. The main purpose of this study is to identify the reasons behind the fact that fruit growers are poorly organized and there is a small percentage of those who are part of an associative form, in order to identify solutions. The questionnaire method was used in this paper, in which 388 fruit growers responded. Also, the statistical interpretation was performed by analyzing the Pearson and Cramer indicators, but also the non-parametric Chi-square test. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]