Farm fragmentation and the need for consolidation and investment remains a major problem for Romanian agriculture, as documented in this article. One of the key structural problems is over employment in agriculture, which puts a strong pressure on the land and constrains the supply of land for...

Placing Romania’s agriculture in the EU context, the article is trying to determine whether this sector, featuring extreme polarization and highly oversized labor force, can contribute to country’s general effort towards catching-up. The first section describes the multiple challenges the...

The main purpose of this paper is to assess the competitiveness of the SIRIUS1 Irrigation Project in the Cazasu Rural Area – North Braila Terrace. SIRIUS aims to establish innovative and new service capacities for the irrigation water management user community with the vision of bridging and...

In Romania, the Irrigation Water Users’ Associations (IWUA) concept was set up in order to diminish competition, which generates conflicts in relation to the access to and utilization of irrigation water, as well as to facilitate the transfer to end users (farmers) of the administration and...

The irrigation systems determine the modernization of agricultural activities by promoting technical innovation and emancipation of rural social networks, by inducing and dissipating the organizational behaviours and transformation of rural traditional values.1 The evolution of local power...

Climate modification by the progressive warming of the atmosphere resulting from the concerted action of several factors, both natural and anthropic (emission of increasingly large amounts of greenhouse gases), favours the diminution of precipitations at soil level, corroborated with the...

After the approval of the Declaration of Independence (August 27, 1991), the Republic of Moldova lives in the hope to strengthen its place among the democratic nations of the world and to build a new socio-economic system. The formation of the new economic system goes through a difficult stage...

Agriculture was and is still considered a strategic sector of the Romanian economy; out of this reason a greater contribution is expected from agriculture to the gross value added at national level. However, the lack of new investments or rehabilitation of the existing ones in agriculture...

The paper intends to make an analysis at regional level in the South-East Region of the country in order to determine the present situation of agriculture in this region compared to the whole country. The paper investigates the crop structure, the irrigated area and the number of irrigation...

In Romania, due to weather conditions, irrigation is of utmost importance for the normal development of crops. The infrastructure serving the irrigation systems, mostly designed in the period of command economy, has been adapted to the new land operation structure resulting from the process of...