Second, we notice incapacity of the market to provide an adequate offer of local organically
produced vegetables and fruits. The market for organic products and especially fresh organic
products is severely underdeveloped in Romania. The limited offer of organic products is mostly
imported and concentrated in large retailers. "A single Romanian ecological producer cannot meet
the demands of supermarket chains, which are not inclined to buy from local producers because
they want to gain more and pay the producer as least as possible." (Viorel Solomie, responsible
for ecological agriculture at the Timis County Agriculture Directorate)