DECISIONS IN SUSTAINABLE VITICULTURE USING LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT

Agriculture and within it, industrialised viticulture of our century, developed on intensively chemicalised and mechanised technologies has lead to problems that can affect a supreme value criteria and namely, human health, through environment and food depreciation. The paper presents a possibility to justify managerial decisions within agricultural holdings in order to sustainable develop them, based on the life cycle assessment of the products. This management technique targets the impact of the agricultural activities on the environment, on the manufacturing stages of the agricultural products, also highlighting their economic and social effects. The paper refers to the importance of life cycle assessment and the used methodology illustrated in a case study regarding wine grapes grown at the Tarnavelor vineyard in Romania through conventional and green technology. The analysis based on the life cycle assessment specific for the 2 technologies underlines the superiority of the green technology in comparison to the conventional one, from ecologic, economic and social perspectives.