Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 16 ISSUE 1
Written by Nicola GALLUZZO

Romania is one of the European countries such as Italy characterized by the highest percentage incidence of small family farms with a rural population scattered predominately in less favoured areas. The objective of this paper was to assess throughout a quantitative method, impacts of funds allocated by the second pillar of the Common Agricultural Policy on cropping specialization in order to solve out migration from Romanian countryside. We used the data published by the European Union in the Farm Accountancy Data Network (FADN) dataset from 2007 to 2012. Romanian farms have pointed out a not significant impact of financial aids paid to less favoured areas in order to reduce the rural marginalization and depopulation and, by contrast, a direct correlation between Single Area Payment Scheme and farm net income.

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