Abstract
The issue of the economic efficiency of family agricultural farms, the dairy cattle farms especially, has become more and more debated over the last few years, as the agricultural and small livestock farms need to be more and more productive in order to adapt to the eternal needs of the market, to the stronger price competition, the new environmental and socio-economic conditions. The dairy farming sector is strongly influenced by requirements regarding sanitary, ethical, animal welfare standards, and environmental factors in food production, processing, and marketing. The present scientific paper presents fundamental aspects regarding the economic efficiency of family dairy cattle farms breeding and modern development concepts of these farms in Romania‘s conditions, as a European Union member country. A lot of specialized bibliographic sources have been used, as well as a lot of research reports, government programs for the development of the agricultural sector, feasibility studies, and technical-economic analyses of farms, in order to write this scientific paper.