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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 16 ISSUE 1
Written by Benjamin DIRE, J. I. ONU, A. A. U. JUNGUR, A. A. NDAGHU, D. Y. GIROH

The study assessed the awareness on the use of ICTs by agricultural extension agents in North east, Nigeria. The specific objectives include describe the socio-economic characteristics of the agricultural extension agents and ascertain agricultural extension agents’ awareness of ICTs use in their works Primary data was used for the study and were collected through the administration of questionnaires. A multistage-stage random sampling technique was employed to select 254 agricultural extension agents from north eastern Nigeria proportionately using Taro Yamane’s formula. Data collected were analyzed using descriptive. The results of the analysis revealed that majority of agricultural extension agents were between the ages of 41 – 50 years and non below the age of 20 years. A large proportion of the agricultural extension agents about 70% were male with only 30.71% female. Majority (91.34%) were married all (100%) of the agricultural extension agents in the study area had one form of formal education or the other with 45.7% and 1.57% of them had Degree/Higher National Diploma (HND) and Masters Degrees respective. Majority (77%) of the agricultural extension agents have been in service above 21 years with a mean working experience of 6.5 years was. 61.42% had grade levels of between 10 and 15 with 67.71% had an estimated average annual income of between N20, 000.00 – N 60, 000.00 only. All (100%) of agricultural extension agents were aware in the use of one form of ICTs or another in performance of their duties. As a matter of policy, all agricultural scientists and extension agents must possess proven skills in the utilization of ICT facilities like computer and Internet.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 16 ISSUE 1
Written by Cristina STANCĂ-MOISE

The constitution of the local geographical populations, print also a behaviour (flight, locomotion, reproduction) characteristic for each zone of the area. The biology, ecology and behavior of populations study is allowing to establish the specific features of the populations associated with the possibility of control and fighting. Regarding ecological studies of populations based on data captured in conditions of the years 2014-2015 in the village of Sibiel, district Sibiu, significant results were obtained with both light traps and pheromone traps. This paper is a summary of data on the dynamics and abundance of Mamestra brassicae populations in a vegetable garden in the town Sibiel of district Sibiu in terms of the years 2014-2015.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 16 ISSUE 1
Written by Elena SOARE, Iuliana DOBRE

The aim of this paper is to emphasis the main trends on the Romanian corn market. Corn market has a particular importance because of its contribution to feed people and livestock, on the one hand, and, on the other hand, ensure the income for the farmers from export. Using quantitative statistical methods, the paper proposes an economic analysis of corn market in the period 2010-2014. This analysis shows that Romania cultivates large areas with corn, ranking on the first place among European Union countries. Also, in Romania the corn has the highest average production comparatively with the other cereals. The corn remains a key element in Romanian agriculture structure, given that is more increasingly required for export in order to produce biofuels.

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

In a country in which about one third of employed population working in agriculture, this paper aim was to evaluate the place and role of the primary sector in Romania’s economy resistance in the face of major economic crisis. The economic resilience was investigated in territorial perspective, at NUTS 3 level – the 42 counties of Romania. During the last financial crisis, agriculture was operating as a system with high economic stability and has helped the speed up of recovery process of economic losses generated by crisis. Romania’s agriculture is a system with relatively high resilience to shocks and at the same time a supplier of economic and social resilience for the entire economy.

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

The purpose of this paper is to track the amount of nutrients that reach the waste water coming from a unit of the meat industrialization. Waste water resulting from such a unit, insufficiently treated, affect negatively the quality of the ground water in the area, or the emissary it reached. The intended indicators in this study were those which pollute emissaries in particular: chemical consume of oxygen, biochemical consume of oxygen, ammonia nitrogen, total phosphorus. From the evolution of the analyzed indicators, there are low values, similar to those provided by legislation in force for ammonia nitrogen and hardly biodegradable organic compounds, recording small exceeding for the biochemical consume of oxygen. Powerful agent of eutrophication, total phosphorus has quite high exceeding. In conclusion, the impact of the discharge of waste water on the environment from such a unit, exists, although it is quite low.

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

The main aim of the article was to characterize development and legal frameworks of the organic farming in Poland. The study focuses mainly on such aspects as number and structure of organic producers, structure of lands employed in organic production, organization, productivity and profitability of organic farms in comparison to conventional farms and finally legal frameworks of organic agriculture in Poland and UE. In terms of economic aspects, it should be firstly noted that statistical data clearly shows that domestic organic agriculture sector has significantly developed since the accession of Poland to the EU. It should be also highlighted that conventional and organic farms differ in terms of productivity and profitability where all levels are higher for conventional forms. In terms of legal aspects, the study mainly focuses on analysis of complex legal provisions of both community and domestic law. The Council Regulation (EC) No 834/2007 defines basic and fundamental principles of community policy related to organic agriculture when domestic act on organic agriculture of 25th June 2009 constitutes structural system of organic agriculture’s control.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 16 ISSUE 1
Written by Andrei Radu IOVA, Mariana NĂSTASE, Elena LASCĂR

The rural tourism becomes more and more attractive as the tourists become more mobile and look for a change from the city life. The rural tourism and agrotourism activities interfere, complement and support each other, forming a sector to be organized specifically taking account its geographical, economic, social specific etc., the specificity of its products and the role they should play in the development of the rural area. Based on these considerations, the present paper proposed an analysis of the implementation of the European projects to support the tourism activities in the rural area, by type of programs and their impact on socio-economic development in these areas given that in the period 2000- 2014, the number of tourist structures in the rural area increased from 3121 units to 6089 units with the accommodation potential and agrotourism activities. The analysis was made at the macroeconomic level, on total country and by development regions, quantifying the number of projects implemented in each region.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 16 ISSUE 1
Written by Anişoara DUMA COPCEA, Casiana MIHUȚ, Simona NIȚĂ, L. NIȚĂ

The purpose of the paper was to analyze the distribution of the 1st level monitoring sites by evaluation class of some hydro-physical features of the soil within the Commune of Sag, Timis County, Romania. Geomorphologically, the commune is located in the Banat-Crişană Plain, as part of the Western Romanian Plain, at the eastern extremity of the Tisei Plain, in the Timiş-Bega Interfluve, a unit formed exclusively by the cumulative action of the Timiş River. The area of the commune is mainly in the alluvial plain of the Timiş River and, partially, in the Bega River Plain. Positive forms, slight bumps of land (hills) are irregular in shape and are dispersed within the territory, more frequently near the ex-menders of next to the Timişul Mort River. As part of the vast Tisa Plain, the low plain where the commune is located ha a relatively low lithological evolution over the sand and gravel formations from the Pleistocene pushed by the rivers of Mureş, Timiş and Bega; during the lacustrine period, clays were deposited here: nowadays, they appear in varied situations generating a wide variety of soil types.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 16 ISSUE 1
Written by Anişoara DUMA COPCEA, Casiana MIHUȚ, Simona NIȚĂ, L. NIȚĂ

Located in South-Western Timiş County (45°39' Northern latitude and 21°10' Eastern longitude), on the European route E 70, Şag, the seat of the commune by the same name, is 14 km from the city of Timişoara and 3 km from Parţa, a locality that used to be part of the commune until 2004, when it became itself a commune. The Commune of Şag covers 8,664 ha, of which 8,419 ha is agricultural land. The micro-relief of the field is an alternation of negative and positive forms of which negative forms share the most. The latter are represented by a set of micro-depressions (closed or open) that are elongated (ex abandoned meanders of the rivers Bega and Timiş and of their tributaries) and, most often by smaller depressions of different shapes and size. Due to its geographical location, the territory is part of the field climate at the border between the western sub-type with ocean influences and the Banat sub-type, with Mediterranean influences; mean multi-annual temperature is 10.9°C for the interval 1943-2004 (Meteorological Station of Timişoara); mean multi-annual precipitations is 585.8 mm for the interval 1871-1975 (Meteorological Station of Răuţi), with 631.0 mm for the interval 1871-1975 and 591.9 mm for the interval 1955-2004 (Meteorological Station of Timişoara), which points to a process of aridity.

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

Long-term target by 2050 set by the European Commission is based on the development of the competitiveness of the economies that efficiently handles with the natural resources and contributes to reducing carbon emissions. Competitiveness can be increased also by diversification. Later it was integrated the concept of green (low carbon) economy into general policy framework at the national policies of the Member States. Diversification orientation into the bioenergy production represents the use of agricultural land for targeted growing of fast-growing plants under specific conditions. The article evaluated varietal conditionality of Populus biomass production based on soil and ecological conditions of southern Slovakia. The research was realized in the vegetation year 2012 (the last year of the first growing cycle) and 2013 (the first year of the second growing cycle) on a research area in the village Kolíňany, Slovakia. Return cut of the trees (at the end of the vegetation in 2012) influenced biomass production the first year of the second growing cycle by all grey poplar varieties. By all varieties the biomass production in the harvest moisture (t ha-1) decreased in the range from 71.5% variety Monviso to 80.9% Pegaso. Production of dry mass (t ha-1) decreased in the range of 80.28 to 81.70% by three varieties -Pegaso, AF-2 and Sirio. The lowest decrease of dry mass has been researched in a variety Monviso (74.85%). All grey poplar varieties exceeded in the first year of the second growing season (a year after re-section) economic yield limit (12 t of dry matter. ha-1.year-1).

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