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30 MUNICIPALITY SWOT ANALYSIS ECONOMY SECTOR STRONG POINTS WEAK POINTS • Medgidia has some areas with propitious conditions for the development of industrial business: - Medgidia East harbour area; - Medgidia North industrial area. • Diversified economic structure. • Existence of an industrial tradition. • Big spaces, properly equipped for storage and preservation; available lands for sale at accessible prices where industrial building or warehouse can be built.· • Availability of raw material in the area, for specific activities: building material industry, extractive industry, food industry. • Predominance of the private property over the state property. • Existence of some strategic investors (LAFARGE), which can induct the development of other vertical economic activities. • Qualified labour force for different fields of activity. • Low level of local taxes. • Obsolete economic structure, declining industry, old equipment with a high rate of ware. • The status of the industrial patrimony. • Low efficiency of the economic operators from industry. • Loss of some important markets. · Low level of SME development. • Low development index for entire area (Category III). • High fluctuation of the labour force between economic branches.· • Inappropriate management.· • Lack of a mechanism for selective stimulation of industrial activities and promotion of clean industries that produce goods with high added value.· • Acute lack of jobs; increasing trend in the unemployment rate. • Low development of services. INDUSTRY OPPORTUNITIES • The short distance to the harbour facilitates the transport on the Black Sea - Danube - Rhine - Main channel. • Medgidia is only 35km far from Mihail Kogalniceanu Airport. • Construction of Bucuresti-Constanta highway. • Establishment of the industrial park. • Possibility to use the instrument of public debt (borrowings and municipal bonds) as attracted sources from the local budget. • Possibility to access sources of the local budget (projects, governmental sources, private sources, special taxes). • Stabilization of the national economy. • Improvement of the legislation in the labour domain. • Simplification of the legal and administrative procedures in order to encourage investors. • Establishment of public-private partnerships to benefit industrial development. THREATS • Lack of resources to finance major investments. • Legislative instability in the economic field. • Insufficient budgetary resources necessary for supporting the industrial development. • Regional competition regarding the direct investments. • Increase in economic deficits. • International political instability. • Conflict of interests between the economic centres within Constanta County.
31 MEDGIDIA SECTOR STRONG POINTS WEAK POINTS AGRICULTURE • Important land fund. (approx. 2% of county total). • Propitious climatic and soil conditions for intensive agriculture. • High potential of skilled and unskilled labour force. • Existence of irrigation infrastructure in almost the entire area. • Favourable commercial relations with national and international markets. • Existence of important companies, with tradition in practising the agriculture, viticulture and animal farming. • Existence in the area of specialised company for agricultural engineering. • Existence of the Local Association for Medgidia Development. • The Strategy for rural development of the Medgidia area. • Inappropriate endowment of the producers with production means (efficient machinery an equipment). • Advanced rate of wear of the technical and material base for irrigation. • Small and very small sized farms that cause low efficiency by hectare. • Reduced processing degree of the local agricultural products. • Low income of the inhabitants from the rural area of Medgidia. • Deficient social, sanitary, economic and urban infrastructure in the rural peripheries. OPPORTUNITIES THREATS • Increasing interest in the ecological products in Romania, but especially in the European Union. • Opportunity to access funds for agriculture and rural development for both public and private sector, through EU financing programmes, World Bank programmes, or other donors. • More active involvement of the banking sector and guaranteed funds in supporting the agriculture. • Facilities provided after 2007, within the Common Agricultural Policy and Regional Development Policy. • Quotas negotiated by Romania with the European Union • Put into good use the agricultural potential towards sustainable agriculture. • One-year or longer delay in Romania's integration into the European Union. • Suppression of direct subsidies of the agriculture. • Price escalation for the main raw materials consumed within technological processes. • Free competition of Romanian products with other European products, once entered into the Common Market. • Shutting down of some agricultural and farming enterprises caused by incompliance with EU standards related to food quality and security.
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