Romania’s largest agri-food exports in the first ten month of 2014 include cigarettes worth EUR 360 million to Italy, EUR 345 million wheat to Egypt, soy grits worth EUR 27 million to Bulgaria, EUR 24 million worth of sunflower to Hungary and rapeseed of EUR 61 million to the Netherlands, according to data from the National Statistics Institute INS.

"Our exports have started to grow only in 2009-2010. We've joined the world club of grain exporters, and now it's time to move to the processed foods export," says Professor Valeriu Tabara, cited by local Ziarul Financiar.

Three quarters of the agricultural products exported to the top 50 markets where Romania is present are raw products, most frequently wheat, maize, sunflower and rapes.

Romania ends 2014 as a net exporter of agricultural products for the second consecutive year, the surplus reaching EUR 300 million, after nine months into the year.

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