Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 15 ISSUE 4
Written by Ada-Flavia CRISTINA, Camelia MĂNESCU, Alin Marcel POPESCU,Nicoleta MATEOC-SÎRB

Rural areas are an important component of the overall evolution of the Romanian economy. The main three resources that require the agricultural restructure and rural development in our country are: the utilized agricultural area (14.8 million of hectares), the rural population (which represents around 9.24 million people, which means 46% of the population) and rural area surface (which holds 87.1% of the country surface).Therefore, the paper represents a study on rural development given the existing resources and factors,which highlights the features and functions of the rural area, insisting on these elements. At the end of the paper,there were highlighted the strengths, weaknesses, threats and opportunities of the Romanian rural area, using the SWOT analysis method.

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