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The Role Of Small Farms In Romanian Rural Areas

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  • Cecilia ALEXANDRI

    (Institute of Agricultural Economics, Romanian Academy, Bucharest)

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Small-sized farms have a significant share in Romania’s agriculture, as a result of the specificity of land restitution to former owners in the early 1990s. Although the total number of agricultural holdings in Romania has decreased by almost half a million in the last decade, it remains one of the highest in the EU countries and reveals the social, subsistence character of a large part of agricultural holdings. The paper attempts to evaluate the situation of small farm sector restructuring after applying Measure 141 referring to the support to semi-subsistence farms from NRDP 2007-2013 and the national Life Annuity scheme. At the same time, starting from the Commission’s proposal for the post-2013 period on the support to small farms under the form of a lump sum payment ranging from 500 to 1000 euro, a series of calculation variants are made in order to see whether this measure would be financially attractive for the small-sized farms in Romania. The main conclusion of the study could be that the process of small farm consolidation and its integration into the market economy structures would be quite slow, due to the extremely large number of small farms and to their safety net role for the extremely poor rural population, whose survival depends on the operation of the small plot of land into ownership.

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  • Cecilia ALEXANDRI, 2014. "The Role Of Small Farms In Romanian Rural Areas," Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, Institute of Agricultural Economics, vol. 11(1), pages 3-14.
    • Handle: RePEc:iag:reviea:v:11:y:2014:i:1:p:3-14
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    Cited by:

    1. Tudor, Monica Mihaela, 2015. "Small scale agriculture as a resilient system in rural Romania," Studies in Agricultural Economics, Research Institute for Agricultural Economics, vol. 117(1), pages 1-8, April.
    2. S. Kyryziuk, 2017. "The inclusion of small agriproducers in the state support system," Economy and Forecasting, Valeriy Heyets, issue 3, pages 97-110.
    3. Popa, Daniela Grigore & Dinu, Toma Adrian, 2015. "Correlations Between Fragmentation of Farms in the Republic of Moldova and its Impact on Farm Incomes Compared to Poland and Romania," Problems of World Agriculture / Problemy Rolnictwa Światowego, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, vol. 15(30), pages 1-14, December.
    4. Barbara Wieliczko & Agnieszka Kurdyś-Kujawska & Agnieszka Sompolska-Rzechuła, 2020. "Savings of Small Farms: Their Magnitude, Determinants and Role in Sustainable Development. Example of Poland," Agriculture, MDPI, vol. 10(11), pages 1-18, November.
    5. Hubbard, Carmen & Luca, Lucien & Luca, Mihaela & Alexandri, Cecilia, 2014. "Romanian farm support: has European Union membership made a difference?," Studies in Agricultural Economics, Research Institute for Agricultural Economics, vol. 116(2), pages 1-7, August.
    6. Andrzej Hornowski & Andrzej Parzonko & Pavel Kotyza & Tomasz Kondraszuk & Piotr Bórawski & Luboš Smutka, 2020. "Factors Determining the Development of Small Farms in Central and Eastern Poland," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(12), pages 1-21, June.
    7. Ramona Olivia Ștefănescu-Mihăilă, 2016. "Rural Economy and Bioethanol Production," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 8(11), pages 1-19, November.

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    Keywords

    small farm; CAP Reform; Romania;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • Q18 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Agricultural Policy; Food Policy; Animal Welfare Policy
    • Q21 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Renewable Resources and Conservation - - - Demand and Supply; Prices

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