Bulletin USAMV-CN, 63 - 64/2007 RESEARCH CONCERNING THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF PRODUCTION INTEGRATION IN THE FAMILY REPRODUCTION SERICICULTURAL FARM Popescu Agatha, Alexandra Matei *University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine , Bucharest , B-dul Marasti 59 , 011464 , Bucharest Romania, Phone : +40 21 318 25 64/232, Fax : +40 21 318 28 88 , E-mail : agatha_popescu@yahoo.com **SERICAROM Commercial Comany , Bucharest, Romania Key words: economic impact , production integration, sericicultural family reproduction farm Abstract. The paper aimed to compare financial results for 6 experimental variants of production integration between mulberry tree culture and silk worm rearing in order to offer various profitable alternatives to farmers . The most profitable variant is CDV3-VMV2 , that is Mulberry tree plantation 0.5 ha, Seeding field 0.2 ha, Layer maker field 0.1 ha , Sowing field 1 0.2 ha , silk worm rearing for producing 300 kg reproduction silk cocoons , 10 kg silk filament , 25 kg fresh pupae . This variant assures Lei 556,874.37 cumulated profit in the first 8 years of farm activity when mulberry tree plantation can reach the highest leaf production. All the 6 variants are profitable so that farmers could choose the most convenient one according to their purpose and financial capital. INTRODUCTION The durable development of sericiculture according to the requirements imposed by Romania’s entry into the E.U. means the creation of new sericicultural commercial farms where production integration management could be an alternative for product diversification, a better use of material , human and financial resources , for getting higher economic and financial performances and farm competitiveness. Within this context, the paper presents the economic impact of various solutions of production integration in a family sericicultural reproduction farm offering to silk worm breeders the possibility to chose the most convenient alternative suitable to their needs, purpose and financial capital. MATERIAL AND METHOD The research work is based on a sericicultural family farm whose purpose is (a) either silk worm egg production or (b) silk cocoon production for producing silk worm eggs in other farms. The technical conditions taken into consideration for such a farm are the following ones : 1 ha land , of which 0.5 ha mulberry tree plantation for producing leaves used in silk worm feeding and 0.5 ha nursery for producing mulberry tree seed and saplings , 150 s.m. growing space for silk worm rearing , specific sericicultural equipment and tools, biological material represented by 12 boxes , including eggs from high value breeds and hybrids, own water source and labor force represented by the two family members. A number of 5 experimental variants were taken into account as follows : (a)For mulberry tree culture : 3 variants , as follows : CDV1 – 0.5 ha mulberry tree plantation , 0.5 ha layer maker field ; CDV2 - 0.5 ha mulberry tree plantation , 0.2 ha seeding