The physical size of agricultural holdings refers to the average utilized agricultural area (UAA) of agricultural holdings. It reveals the average level of UAA concentration and represents an important component of agricultural production development. In the present paper we have in view the...

This paper examines key features of Irish agricultural transformation following accession to the European Union (then the European Economic Community). More precisely, it focuses on the trends of agricultural structural changes and the major policy measures that influenced these changes, between...

The whole economic, social and spiritual life depends on the natural resources, put into value under different forms, depending on the human intelligence and knowledge. The international community is increasingly getting aware of the importance of the natural capital in the creation of a...

An important dimension of the rural population is given by the subsistence and semisubsistence agriculture where the large majority of people are over the retirement age. This low cost solution to supplement rural people’s incomes or spare their budget from food related expenditure maintains...

The Romanian meat sector holds a significant share in agriculture; in the year 2007 its value represented 16.1% of total agricultural output and 41.8% of animal production. In the first year after Romania’s accession to the European Union, an obvious increase of total meat production by 12.3%...

The rural area from Tara Hategului – Retezat is one of the richest area in Romania in natural and anthropic tourism supplies, determined by the natural, socio-cultural, economic and historical potential that can be used for tourism purposes. As the tourism potential comprises few economic...

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...

As a material production branch, agriculture features certain particularities that are essentially different from those of the other sectors of national economy, namely: active role in land operation, which increases the capacity of obtaining high yields by rational land use and use of technical...

In Romania, the rural economy is poorly diversified and it is still dependent on the agricultural activities. In this context, in the traditional zones, viticulture has a main role in the rural economy, and from the identity point of view, viticulture has a patrimony value, by its following...

Through the entirety of the forms of life, which are interacting among themselves and with the abiotic elements of the environment, biodiversity/biological diversity maintains the ecological processes at local, regional and global level, generating goods and services directly usable by the...