Increasing agricultural productivity and sustainable development

Creating a growing volume of agricultural products based on increased productivity, in order to meet the worldwide growing need of food products, represents a challenging core goal in agricultural policy of most states. This study presents the results of an empirical investigation forecasting the increasing of agricultural productivity up to 2018 for 111 Romanian agricultural SMEs in the North-East region by using a forecast model whose algorithm is based on the Markov chains theory. According to the research results, this study states a positive relationship between the forecasting of increasing agricultural productivity based on biotechnologies and sustainable development.