Botosani County, Romania

GENERAL INFORMATION

The Moldavian region, from the beginnings, was witness to a very active history. Old documents and writings tell us about the active presence of Botosani in some of the key moments for the history of our Romanian nation. Botosani County remains in our national history not only with an important legacy for our past, but with the important contribution that its inhabitants have brought to the national and universal culture.

Situated in the North-East part of Romania , Botosani County has a surface of 4,986 square km, representing 2.1% from the total surface of our country. It is bordered at South by Iasi County , at West by Suceava County and at North and East by Ukraine and the Moldavian Republic .

The administrative and territorial structure of Botosani County is represented by:

- 2 cities: Botosani and Dorohoi,

- 5 towns: Bucecea, Darabani, Flamanzi, Saveni and Stefanesti

- 71 communes: Adaseni, Albesti, Avrameni, Baluseni, Blandesti, Braesti, Broscauti, Calarasi, Concesti, Copalau, Cordareni, Corlateni, Corni, Cosula, Cotusca, Cristesti, Cristinesti, Curtesti, Dersca, Dangeni, Dimacheni, Dobarceni, Draguseni, Durnesti, Frumusica, George Enescu, Gorbanesti, Havarna, Hanesti, Hiliseu Horia, Hlipiceni, Hudesti, Ibanesti, Leorda, Lozna, Lunca, Manoleasa, Mihai Eminescu, Mihaileni, Mihalaseni, Mileanca, Mitoc, Nicseni, Paltinis, Pomarla, Prajeni, Radauti Prut, Rachiti, Rauseni, Ripiceni, Roma, Romanesti, Santa Mare, Suharau, Sulita, Sendriceni, Stauceni, Stiubieni, Todireni, Trusesti, Tudora, Ungureni, Unteni, Vaculesti, Viisoara, Varfu Campului, Vladeni, Vlasinesti, Vorniceni, Vorona.

The county’s capital is Botosani City . In the Medieval Age, Botosani had a main role as a trading and craftworks centre, being situated at the crossing of roads that once linked the main kings residences from Moldova – Siret, Suceava, Hirlau and Iasi.

At July 1^st, 2005 the County had about 459900 inhabitants.

At July 1^st, 2007 the County had about 454167 inhabitants, as in the next table:.

	Total (persons)	Male	Women
Population at 1st July 2007:	454.167	223.476	230.691
- in urban areas	189.389	91.434	97.955
- in rural areas	264.778	132.042	132.736
Botosani City	117,318

The composition of population (according to RPL/2002), by nationality:

		Number of persons
	Total:	452,834
	Romanians	447,425
	Roma	3,390
	Ukrainians	896
	Lipovans	656
	Hebrews	115
	Hungarians	83
	Greeks	34
	Other nationalities	235

Botosani County population on localities

Geography

Geographically, Botosani is entirely placed on the old “Moldavian Platform”. In the bounds of the county there are 2 relief subdivisions: the Siret Hills, located in the western part and the Moldavian Plain covering ¾ of the county area, including the Botosani - Dorohoi Depression and the Cozancea-Guranda Hills.

The hydrographical network

The hydrographical network covers between 0.43-0.64 km/ square km. The rivers are: the Siret (107 km), the Prut (194 km), the Baseu and the Jijia. At Stinca-Costesti an important water dam was built, one of the biggest water accumulation in the country with a volume of 1.5 billion cubic meters, a surface of 6,000 ha and 70 km long. The Volovat covers 45 km of the county. The 148 ponds in the county cover an area of 3,600 hectares, Botosani County being the second, after Tulcea County , as far as the water surface is concerned.

ECONOMY

Natural resources

The underground resources are represented by very pure sands, unique in Romania by composition and purity, worked at Miorcani (Radauti-Prut commune). Similar deposits can also be found in the Hudesti, Suharau communes and near Bajura village (near Darabani City ). There are gypsum deposits in the East side of Paltinis commune and in Crasnaleuca (Cotusca commune). In Hudesti commune, there are tuff deposits, formed from volcanic cinders. At the Prut River bend, in Crasnaleuca, there are clay deposits. Sulphur deposits can be found in Prajeni commune, in Ursoaia and Teisoara Valley .

Regarding construction rocks there are: limestone (Stefanesti, Hudesti, Vorona, Cosula, Magura-Ibanesti, Tudora), gravel (Dersca), sands (Stincesti, Baisa, Dimacheni), ballast (Hutani, Corni, Tudora, Siret river bed). Peaty deposits can be found in Dersca commune.

Business sector – SME

Small and Medium Enterprises have a very important role in county’s economy, being flexible, receptive to market’s needs, innovative and able to respond to consumers needs.

The number of companies/economical agents registered at the end of year 2005:

Type of company	Number
Joint-stock companies	256
Ltd companies	4,140
Other types: state companies, agricultural associations	107
Joint venture	52
Family associations	3,931
*Total*	*8,486*

Economic Activities

Agriculture, hunting and other similar activities	416
Forestry and other similar activities	24
Fishing and other similar activities	21
Mining (coal)	2
Other mining activities	10
Food and beverage industry	356
Production of textiles	62
Clothing, furs (painting)	127
Leather products and shoes fabrication	18
Wood processing (excepting furniture), knitting	69
Paper and cellulose	10
Editing and printing houses	44
Chemicals production	10
Rubber and plastic products	30
Non-metallic products	41
Metallurgy	3
Metallic constructions (except for installations and machines)	54
Machines and equipments industry	13
Office products	1
Machines and electrical devices industry	14
Radio, TV and Communications equipments	1
Medical instruments, precision equipments, optical and photo equipments	9
Transportation	1
Other transportation services	1
Furniture production and other industrial activities	80
Recycling	9
Production and distribution of electrical energy, thermal energy, water, natural gas	3
Water treating and distribution	4
Constructions	295
Commerce, maintenance and repairing of vehicles and motorcycles, fuel distribution	176
Gross commercial activities (except for vehicles and motorcycles)	640
Hotels, restaurants	368
Terrestrial transportation, transportation by pipes	308
Annex and auxiliary transportation activities, tourism agents activities	30
Post and telecommunication	43
Financial services (except for insurances and pensions)	41
Insurances and pensions (except for public sector)	10
Other financial services	12
Real-estates	55
Renting machines and equipments	11
Information technology and other similar activities	71
Research and development activities	3
Other activities and services for companies	287
Public administration and defense, social services from the public sector	1
Education	12
Health and social assistance	53
Waste and water treatments, sanitation and other similar services	2
Association activities	1
Leisure, cultural and sport activities	55
Other personal activities	60
Retail commerce (except for cars and motorcycles); repairing activities	1784

In the county’s industry, for the last years, was an increase of the textile production sector, especially by practicing exclusively a “lohn” production system.

You can see industrial turnover evolution in the table below, in percents.

CodeNACE rev 2	NACE STRUCTURE	Turnover December 2007 - % -		Whole year 2007 - % -
		Basis Nov. 2007	Basis Dec. 2006	Basis 2006
	INDUSTRY	101,5	85,9	112,8
	MINNING AND QUARRYING	45,0	103,7	102,6
B 08.1	Quarrying of stone, sand and clay	45,3	103,6	104,9
	MANUFACTURING	101,2	85,6	114,2
C 10	Manufacture of food products	118,3	144,2	142,8
C 13	Manufacture of textiles	70,6	108,2	105,2
C 14	Manufacture of wearing apparel	75,6	76,8	101,1
C 15.1	Tanning and dressing of leather; manufacture of luggage, handbags, saddlery and harness; dressing and dyeing of fur	151,5	331,7	120,4
C 16	Manufacture of wood and of products of wood and cork, except furniture; manufacture of articles of straw and plaiting materials	80,0	69,8	89,9
C 22	Manufacture of rubber and plastic products	72,3	179,4	98,9
C 23	Manufacture of other non-metallic mineral products	160,2	125,3	76,3
C 25	Manufacture of fabricated metal products, except machinery and equipment	77,1	80,3	80,9
C 28	Manufacture of machinery and equipment n.e.c.	100,4	158,5	95,9
C 26.5	Manufacture of instruments and appliances for measuring, testing and navigation; watches and clocks	170,7	79,1	150,4
C 27	Manufacture of electrical equipment	72,9	61,9	93,0
C 31	Manufacture of furniture	105,9	32,1	101,5
	ELECTRICITY, GAS, STEAM and WATER	116,5	89,4	86,4
D 35	Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply	121,0	86,2	81,6
D 36	Water collection, treatment and supply	99,5	107,8	98,8

BUSINESS INFRASTRUCTURE

The Business Incubator was established by the Botosani Local Council, as a result of a European financing program - PHARE 2001 Economical and Social Cohesion, Regional Infrastructure component. The incubator offers business support services: spaces for offices and production facilities for newly created businesses. It offers consultancy and support for businesses from the conception phase to the production and marketing.

The Ecological Industrial Park - According to the Order of the Ministry of Development and Prognosis no. 170/02.06.2003, the association between The Local Council Botosani, S.C. Electrocontact S.A. , S.C. Electrominig S.A. şi S.C. Mecanica S.A. has become The Ecological Industrial Park Botosani.Its main field of activity is industry (it aims to create an industrial activity based on environment protection, with an increased productivity), but offers other secondary services as well (Business Centre, Distribution and Services). The total surface of the Industrial Park is 129,500 square meters, from which 84,265 are old buildings, 20,000 sqm. are new buildings, the rest representing the Commercial Centre.

Services consist of:

- Financial assistance, accountability and auditing

- IT&C services

- Juridical assistance services

- Medical services

- Transportation services

- Project management consultancy

- Assistance in relation with syndicates organizations.

SWOT ANALISYS OF THE BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT

STRONG POINTS	WEAK POINTS
- Cheap and qualified labor force - Well developed industrial activities: textiles, synthetics fibers, wood processing - Increased number of employees that work on the SME sector - Increased SME’s contribution to the general turnover - Increased contribution of the production and construction sector to the general turnover, comparative to the services sector - Existence of Employers Associations and Syndicates and Agencies with financing programs	- Decrease in number of the employed persons - Reduced volume of investments, especially foreign - Limited access to capital - Low infrastructure development - Low developed consultancy services for start-up and general activities for businesses - Low promotion activities, for attracting investors - Lack of an entrepreneurial culture, low developed management abilities - Decline of certain industrial activities: machines and equipment construction, rubber, glass - Lack of communication between the business sector and public administration sector - Lack of facilities for starting up businesses, form the local authorities (lower taxes, etc.)
THREATS	OPPORTUNITIES
- Migration of labor force - Legislative instability - High rate of taxes - Accession to the European Union: new rules and legislation, high quality standards - Increased level of bureaucracy in obtaining credits (from the banks)	- Accession to the European Union and access to the Structural Funds - Development of tourism - The existence of various financing programs: European, World Bank and Romanian Government - Support from the Government, for the business sector

Industry:

Number of companies registered at the end of year 2005:

Type of company	Number
Joint-stock companies	256
Ltd companies	4,140
Other types: state companies, agricultural associations	107
Joint venture	52
Family associations	3,931
Total	8,486

For the last years, in the county’s industry has been signaled a growth of the textile industry sector, practicing exclusively a “lohn” production system.

The main industrial branches of the county are: textile industry, food industry, construction of machines and equipments, chemicals, glass and porcelain, wood processing.During the last years, the number of employees from the industry has decreased, as a result of the development of commerce and services sector. There is an increase of the turnover for the following sectors: clothing production, metallic products manufacture and electrical machines and equipments constructions.

Commerce

Commerce represents the main sector in the county’s economy, gathering most of the businesses and financial resources.

For the last 10 years there is an increase on the number of economical agents dealing with commercial activities. Most of the activities are developed by the private sector.A relevant indicator for the business sector from Botosani County is the export – import commercial balance.

Exports and imports

(x1000 euro)
Total	2005									2006
Total	apr.	may	jun.	jul.	aug.	sep.	oct.	nov.	dec.	jan.	feb.	mar.	apr.	may
export	13580	12221	16116	14810	12742	16385	16009	15938	13726	14065	16390	18823	13392	62670
import	10962	15624	15312	11041	9803	10557	13083	15607	13891	12562	11747	12828	11259	48397

INVESTMENTS

Between 1996 and 2000, the total value of investments raises up to 1,704.7 billion lei, with funds from the state budget, the local budget, investors own sources, loans and other sources.

From the total value of investments, 45 % came from the public budget, 35.2 % from the companies own resources, 14.2 % from loans and 5.6% from other sources.

The total value of investments for the year 2000 is with 39.2 % smaller comparative with year 1996.

Year	Total millions lei	State budget (%)	Private contribution (%)	Loans and other sources (%)
2000	299,600	40.8	37.6	21.6
2001	421,814.3	32.9	54.7	12.4
2002	464,568.9	18.6	58.2	23.2

Year	Total investments millions lei	Foreign investments	Foreign investments (%)
2000	299,600	-	-
2001	421,814	123,889.2	29,4
2002	464,569	166,323.3	35,8

Investments by field of activity	Year 2002 (%)
Industry	78.8
Public administration	11.7
Health and Social Assistance	6.7
Commerce	2.8

Analyzing the evolution of different industrial branches and the investors interest, we consider that the textile and clothing industry, because of the expansion of the lohn production system, currently represents the most attractive type of industry for local and foreign capital.

Activities ( NACE , Rev.1)	Turnover (billions of lei – current prices)	Investments (billions of lei – current prices)	Employees ¹⁾ (number)
Mining	106	17	290
Industry	7172	1052	24163
Electricity and heat, natural gas and water	887	226	1671
Constructions	1329	114	3539
Retail and en-gross commerce, repairing and maintaining cars, motorcycles and household equipments	8375	419	8416
Hotels and restaurants	262	25	859
Transport, storage and communications	1291	432	3100
Real-estate transactions, renting and other services for companies	467	50	887
Education ²⁾	1	-	9
Health and social assistance ²⁾	14	3	74
Other collective, social and personal services	145	13	656

¹⁾ Medium number employees.
²⁾Includes only the local units with educational activity, or health and social assistance, organized as commercial companies.

Value of foreign investments on number of companies and country of origin

01.12.1990 – 30.05.2006

No.	Country	Number of companies	Companies social capital Total (lei)	Foreign investment (dollars)	Foreign investment (lei)	Romanian investment (lei)
1	AUSTRALIA (36)	2	13,020	3,951
2	AUSTRIA (40)	7	55,510	20,708	1,990
3	BELGIUM (56)	7	133,429,400	86,825
4	BELIZE (84)	1	200	61
5	CANADA (124)	2	139,951	7,677	8,508	125,570
6	CHINA (156)	5	4,100	1,272
7	SOUTH KOREEA (410)	1	163,550	7,516		137,995
8	DENMARK (208)	2	655	103	205
9	EGYPT (818)	2	800	335
10	SWITZERLAND (756)	3	9,463	10,000	7,463
11	FRANCE (250)	14	313,972,462	1,139,733		180
12	GERMANY (280)	30	39,431,854,102	2,226,115	277,481	400
13	GREECE (300)	16	150,886	284,045	40,248	500
14	HONURAS (340)	1	200	224
15	BRITISH VIRGINE ISLANDS (92)	2	390		190	40
16	IRAK (368)	7	201,107	10,179	112,597
17	IRAN (364)	1	2,000	606
18	ISRAEL (376)	5	45,750	1,674	10
19	ITALY (380)	131	34,328,429	10,337,645	985,998
20	FORMER YUGOSLAVIA REPUBLIC (890)	1	300		300
21	JAPAN (392)	1	500		400	100
22	LIBAN (422)	3	3,002	1,073	6
23	LIBIA (434)	1	1,000	294
24	LIECHTENSTEIN (438)	1	812,128	1,057,383		394,868
25	LUXEMBOURG (442)	5	4,218,425	581,862
26	U.K. (826)	4	332,660	37,399
27	MOLDOVA (486)	33	31,735	11,668	20,295
28	HOLLAND (528)	10	948,792	487,838
29	POLAND (616)	3	3,132	163	2,042
30	RUSSIA (810)		80		80
31	U.S.A. (840)	16	5,039,160	1,208,691	8,080
32	SIERRA LEONE (694)	1	206		171	35
33	SPAIN (724)	7	16,800	5,953	180
34	SWEEDEN (752)	2	420	165		110
35	TURKEY (792)	47	712,391	290,706	12,414	900
36	UKRAINE (804)	8	78,040	23,968	950	100
37	HUNGARY (348)	2	10,339	2,515		5,000

Number of companies with foreign capital - by fields of activity

Agriculture, hunting	37
Forestry	4
Other extraction activities	1
Food and beverage industry	5
Textile industry	19
Clothing industry; furs processing	41
Furs tanning; shoes, etc.	3
Wood processing (excepting furniture); knitting	11
Editing house, printing house	2
Chemicals industry	1
Rubber and plastic fabrication	2
Other non-metallic products fabrication	1
Metallurgy	1
Metallic construction industry (only machines and equipments)	8
Machines and equipments industry	1
Electrical machines and equipments industry	1
Other transportation means, n.a.	1
Furniture production	7
Constructions	13
Retail and gross commerce, maintenance and repairing of cars and motorcycles, commerce activities with fuels	7
Gross commerce and mediation services for commerce (except for commerce with cars and motorcycles)	68
Hotels, restaurants	13
Terrestrial transports, pipes transports	16
Auxiliary transport activities, tourism agencies activities	4
Post and telecommunications	1
Financial transactions (except for insurance activities and pensions)	9
Real-estates transactions	10
Machines and equipments rentals	2
IT&C	2
Other services for companies	10
Various associative activities	1
Leisure, culture and sport	1
Retail, repairing household equipments	81

ACTIVITIES WITH POTENTIAL FOR DEVELOPMENT:

- Rehabilitation, modernization and development of county’s infrastructure, rehabilitation of urban areas;

- Business infrastructure development;

- Rural economy development, investments in agriculture and food industry;

- Development of tourism;

- Investments in modern technologies;

- Organizing trades, expositions and national, regional and international conferences for attracting and promoting the local business environment;

- Investments in quality systems;

- Development of labor market, training and qualification for labor force;

- Development of research centers.

EMPLOYMENT

Number of employees

(persons)
	2005									2006
	apr.	may	jun.	jul.	aug.	sep.	oct.	nov.	dec.	jan.	feb.	mar.	apr.
Total	57129	57241	57242	57327	57275	57172	56972	56966	56527	57397	57903	58354	58446
from which:
Agriculture, hunting and similar services, Forestry and fishing	1590	1593	1599	1596	1594	1591	1585	1585	1573	1597	1611	1624	1626
Industry and constructions	24756	24804	24896	24842	24819	24774	24688	24685	24495	24872	25091	25287	25327
Services	30783	30844	30957	30890	30862	30807	30699	30696	30459	30928	31201	31443	31493

Unemployment rate

(%)
	2005									2006
	apr.	may	jun.	jul.	aug.	sep.	oct.	nov.	dec.	jan.	feb.	mar.	apr.
Total	7,9	7,5	7,3	7,1	6,8	6,7	6,5	5,9	6,1	6,6	7,1	7,5	7,1
from which:
Men	11,1	10,5	10,0	9,5	8,9	8,7	8,6	7,5	8,2	9,1	10,2	10,8	10,0
Women	4,8	4,8	4,8	4,8	4,8	4,8	4,6	4,3	4,1	4,1	4,2	4,3	4,2

INSTITUTIONS AND ORGANIZATIONS SUPPORTING THE LOCAL ECONOMY

Institutia Prefectului judetului Botosani

(Botosani County Institution of Prefect)

Address: 1-3th Piata Revolutiei, postal code: 710236, Botosani

phone: +40 231 512212

fax: +40 231 512113

http://www.prefecturabotosani.ro

e-mail: email@prefecturabotosani.ro

Consiliul Judetean Botosani

(Botosani County Council)

Address: 1-3th Piata Revolutiei, postal code: 710236, Botosani
phone: +40 231 514712, +40 231 514713, +40 231 514714
fax: +40 231 515020
http://www.cjbotosani.ro

e-mail: consiliu@cjbotosani.ro

Camera de Comert, Industrie si Agricultura Botosani

(Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture Botosani)

Address: 13^th Dragos Voda, Botosani

phone: 0231/513591, 513630, 5213584

fax: 0231/517532

http://botosani.cci.ro; http://www.petar.ro/cciabt/
e-mail: officeccia@petar.ro; orcbt@petar.ro;

Oficiul pentru Registrul Comertului Botosani
(Commerce Register Office Botosani)

Autoritatea Nationala a Vamilor, Directia Regionala Iasi, Biroul Vamal Botosani

(National Authority for Customs, Iasi Regional Direction, Botosani Customs Office)

Address: Manoleşti Deal, Botosani

phone: + 40 231 514 819

Stanca Customs

(Biroul Vamal Stanca)

Address: Stânca Village , Botosani County

phone: +40 231 564265

http://www.dpfiasi.ro

PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION
Tarom Agency (flights), 13^rd Piata Revolutiei , Botosani, phone: +40 231 518222; +40 231 530447
CFR Agency (railway), 77^th Calea Nationala, Botosani, phone : +40 231 517521
CFR Station (Botosani railway station), 1^st Gării Street , Botosani, phone: +40 231 512897

Autogara Botosani (buses), 2^nd Gării Street , Botosani, phone: +40 231 511129, +40 231 534548

Automobil Clubul Roman (Romanian Auto Club), 19^th N. Bălcescu Street , Botosani, phone: +40 231 511134; +40 231 513414

BANKS

Banca Comercială Româna S.A., 3^rd Piaţa Revoluţiei, Botosani, phone: +40 231 510233; +40 231 512413; fax: +40 231 511313; +40 231 531060;

Banca Română pentru Dezvoltare, 156^th Calea Naţională, Block of flats H.1 - H.3, Botosani; phone: +40 231 512780; +40 231 518333; fax: +40 231 513344;

BancPost S.A., 95^th Calea Naţională, Botosani; phone: +40 231 510056; +40 231 513914

Banca Comercială "Ion Ţiriac" S.A. , 152^nd Calea Naţională, Botosani, phone: +40 231 534363; phone/ fax: +40 231 536510; +40 231 536511; +40 231 536512

Raiffeisen Bank Romania S.A. (Botoşani )

Casa de Economii şi Consemnaţiuni (CEC - Botoşani)

Banca Comercială Carpatica (Botoşani)

Banca Transilvania (Botosani)

EMPLOYERS ASSOCIATIONS, PRODUCERS ASSOCIATIONS

Oficiul Patronal Judeţean Botoşani

(Botosani County Employers Office)

Address: 36^th Calea Naţională, Botosani

phone: +40 231 505335

fax: +40 231 516 583

e-mail: opjbt@cpisc.ro

Asociaţia Română a Antreprenorilor de Construcţii

(Romanian Association of Construction Entrepreneurs)

202A Splaiul Independenţei, postal code 77208, sector 6, Bucharest

phone: +40 21 2126391; +40 21 2126392

fax: +40 21 3129626

e-mail: contact@araco.ro

http://www.araco.org

Iasi subsidiary – phone: +40 231 527229; +40 231 584129

fax: +40231 584634; +40 231 584130

Uniunea Generală a Industriaşilor din România 1903 - Filiala Botoşani

(General Association of Industrialists from Romania 1903 – Botosani subsidiary)

Address: 6^th Calea Naţională, Botosani

phone: +40 231 515267

fax: +40 231 513710

http://www.ugir1903.ro

Patronatul Naţional Român – Filiala Botoşani

(Romanian National Employers Association)

Address: 5^th Zorilor Street , Botosani

phone: +40 231 510569

fax: +40 231 510560

http://www.pnr.org.ro

Consiliul Naţional al Întreprinderilor Private Mici şi Mijlocii din România – Filiala Botoşani

(National Council of Private Small and Medium Enterprises from Romania – Botosani subsidiary)

phone: +40 231 516931; +40 231 513434

http://www.cnipmmr.ro/

Agenţia de Dezvoltare Regională Nord-Est – Biroul Judeţean Botoşani

(North-East Regional Development Agency – Botosani County Office)

Involved in implementing various E.U. financed programs – PHARE; and other donors (Romanian Government, DFID).

http://www.adrnordest.ro

Agenţia Judeţeană pentru Ocuparea Forţei de Muncă (A.J.O.F.M. Botoşani)

(Botosani County Employment Agency)

The agency has 2 local agencies in Botosani and Dorohoi. The agency from Botosanni has subsidiaries in Truşeşti, Vorona, Flămânzi şi Săveni, and the one from Dorohoi has a subsidiary in Darabani.

Agenţia Naţională a Întreprinderilor Mici şi Mijlocii şi Cooperaţie – Biroul judeţean Botoşani

(National Agency of Small and Medium Enterprises and Cooperation – Botosani County Office)

Address: Botosani County Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture.

Asociaţia Română pentru Standardizare (ASRO) – Biroul judeţean Botoşani

(Romanian Association for Standardization – Botosani County Office)

Address: Botosani County Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture.

AGRICULTURE

In Botosani County , agriculture represents the main economical activity and concentrates most of the working force. The agricultural surface is about 392,776 ha, representing 78.8% from the total surface of the county. The arable surface is about 290,171 ha, from which 98.6% is owned by private persons.

The forestry resources cover 55,800 ha. The forests have a total surface of 55,800 ha, from which 1,000 ha are covered with conifer trees and 53,300 ha with deciduous trees.

Agriculture – land resources

Years	Total surface	Agricultural surface	from which:
Years	Total surface	Agricultural surface	Arable	Pasture	Meadows	Vineyards	Orchard
1990	498569	387683	291038	74080	14226	3862	4477
1995	498569	387680	291479	75094