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Agriculture over large areas, agriculture modernization premise of Calarasi County

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  • Emil Musat

    (Faculty of Agro-Food and Environmental Economics, The Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania)

  • Rares Alexandru Ionescu

    (Faculty of Agro-Food and Environmental Economics, The Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania)

Abstract

Calarasi County is one of the counties with the most modern agriculture in Romania. Technological progress has also marked the agricultural field, so in addition to new technologies to improve soil fertility, new agricultural machineries of high efficiency have been brought, with extremely important role in increasing agricultural productivity. Currently, in Calarasi County are 574 farms, each one operating over 100 hectares of arable land, all of them exploiting aprox. 330.000 hectares, respectively 85 % of the arable land of the county, utilizing approx. 59 % of the county farming machinery. Agriculture over large areas was possible mainly by exploiting the leased land, and the largest contribution to the modernization of agricultural production was possible by accessing the European Funds, in this process, belonging to a cooperative structure such "farmers group ", being an advantage for scoring projects.

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  • Emil Musat & Rares Alexandru Ionescu, 2013. "Agriculture over large areas, agriculture modernization premise of Calarasi County," International Conference on Competitiveness of Agro-food and Environmental Economy Proceedings, The Bucharest University of Economic Studies, vol. 2, pages 332-338.
    • Handle: RePEc:aes:icafee:v:2:y:2013:p:332-338
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