Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 13 ISSUE 1
Written by Elena LASCĂR

Agriculture is presented in all counties of the region. The region has favourable natural conditions and an important potential for the agriculture development. Agriculture in Romania has its natural, economic-traditional particularities that can be used in order to obtain some competitive advantages, the European Union encouraging these evolutions. At present, in agriculture in Romania there is a poor link between the farms with the market and a production structure that corresponds to the market demand. That is why, in order to highlight some strategic elements of the rural development, related to the agricultural activities in South-Muntenia Region, aspects regarding the structures of the farms, the structures of the crops and animal breeding must be taken into consideration. The present paper presents aspects regarding the farms in South Muntenia Region. The agrarian structures are the expression of evolution/involution of the agriculture and of the rural area, that balance the economic and social development as a whole. The reduction of the level of agricultural surfaces fragmentation and the stimulation of small size farms concentration constitutes an elements of the evolution of the agriculture and of rural area, the European agrarian policies having as objective the decrease of structural discrepancies of the farms. The limits of the farms were also defined under the average surface of 2-9 hectares, that define the small size farms, under these dimensions being considered family farms.

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