Crop production increased across all major crops in 2025 (except for soybeans and fruits), particularly due to higher yields per hectare, while the cultivated area increased for most crops, according to the provisional statistical data provided by INS (National Institute of Statistics). At EU level, Romania ranked first in the area cultivated with sunflower and maize grains, while in terms of production it ranked first in sunflower and third in maize production.
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Overall, 2025 was a good crop year
INS data show that in 2025, the cultivated area increased for oilseed crops, grains, vegetables and potatoes, and decreased for dried pulses, compared with the previous year.
Furthermore, agricultural crop production increased in all crops: cereals for grains, oilseeds, vegetables, dried pulses and potatoes.
In 2025, there was an increase in areas and yields (average production per hectare) for the main crops.
Cereal production
The area cultivated with cereals for grains increased by 0.7% to 5.1 million hectare and the production by 37.2% to 24.51 million tons, mainly due to the increase of the yields per hectare.
The area cultivated with wheat in 2025, at 2.31 million hectare, represents 45.3% of the total area cultivated with cereals for grains, while the area cultivated with maize for grains (1.97 million hectares) accounts for 38.6%.
Cereal production increased mainly due to a surge of 36.6% in the production of wheat grains, 12.69 million tons, which held a share of 51.8% in the production of cereals.
Pulses and oilseeds
For dried pulses, production increased by 93.7% compared with the previous year, reaching 244,000 tons, due again to higher yields per hectare.
Regarding oilseeds, production rose by 60.9%, to 4.81 million tons, while the cultivated area increased by 11%, to 2.13 million hectare. Production gains were also recorded for rapeseed (+2.1 times, up to 2.5 million tons) and sunflower (+36.5%, up to 2.06 million tons), while soybean production declined (-15.4%, to 253,000 tons).
Other crops
For potatoes, the cultivated area increased by 2.6%, to 78,000 hectare, while production rose by 10%, to 1.16 million tons.
Meanwhile, vegetable production increased by 20.8%, reaching 2.53 million tons, due to both higher yields per hectare and expanded cultivated areas.
In 2025, compared with the previous year, grape production rose by 14.4%, to 809,000 tons, as a result of higher yields per hectare.
Orchard fruit production decreased by 12.9%, to 612,000 tons, due to lower yields per hectare.
An EU comparison
Compared with some European Union member states in 2025, Romania ranked first in cultivated area for maize for grains and third in production, after France and Poland.
For sunflower, Romania ranked first both in cultivated area and in production.
For wheat, Romania ranked fourth in both cultivated area and production, after France, Germany and Poland.
For potatoes, Romania ranked sixth in cultivated area, after Germany, Poland, France, the Netherlands and Belgium, and ninth in production, after Germany, France, the Netherlands, Poland, Belgium, Denmark, Spain and Italy.