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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 21 ISSUE 3
Written by Felix Dimitrie CIOCAN, Ioan Niculae ALECU, Ion DONA

Interhuman relations have experienced many moments of peace, which have favored the emergence of progress, but also moments of unrest, which have led to the emergence of tense phases. It was therefore necessary to develop measures and procedures to bring people to the table for dialogue and cooperation. The mediation procedure is a special feature of the amicable dispute settlement procedures that are alternatives to state justice. Mediation involves processes based on the parties' openness to dialogue, their mutual trust in each other and their willingness to make concessions in order to reach a mutually acceptable and lasting agreement. The main purpose of the present research is to provide a clear view on the current state of implementation of the mediation concept among the inhabitants of rural communities in the South-Muntenia Development Region. The following sociological methods were used to obtain the working information and to research them: questionnaire method, comparative analysis method and Hi-square test method. The sociological research revealed that there is still a low level of knowledge of the mediation procedure among the rural population in the study area. Interestingly, the number of men who know about the mediation procedure is significantly higher than the number of women, but the interest in the procedure is high among those who said they knew and had even used mediation by the time of the research.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 21 ISSUE 3
Written by Felix Dimitrie CIOCAN, Ioan Niculae ALECU, Ion DONA

Among the inhabitants of rural communities in the South-Muntenia Development Region, the occurrence of conflicts is an inherent reality of life... The main purpose of this scientific research is to identify the main types of conflicts faced by the inhabitants of the study area and the causes of their occurrence, as well as to determine the influence of the level of education of the population on conflict management. The following sociological methods were used to collect the working information and research them: questionnaire method, comparative analysis method and Hi-square test method. The research revealed that the most common types of conflicts in the population of the study area are family and work conflicts. Thus, it is revealed that family conflicts, by their degree of complexity due to the strong subjective specificity that characterizes them, do not spare individuals regardless of their level of schooling. Also, in the rural communities of the study area there is a discrete relationship of direct proportionality between the number of the most frequent types of conflicts in which the respondents are involved and their level of education, in the sense that people who have a maximum level of professional education of secondary/vocational level are more likely to become party to a conflict - regardless of its type.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 21 ISSUE 3
Written by Alina Mariana P. POPA (PODARU), Adrian TUREK RAHOVEANU

The support system for young farmers within the CAP, through the large volume of projects, has one of the strongest effects on the development of Romanian agriculture. In Romania, support for young farmers under the CAP has been introduced since 2007, with Romania's accession to the European Union. The scheme provides financial support to people under the age of forty who want to start an agricultural business. Moreover, the support measure for the establishment of young farmers was continued in the 2014-2020 programming period, the intensity of support being even higher. Other non-direct support measures for young farmers through National Rural Development Program (NRDP) funding have also served to change future generations of farmers. The purpose of this paper is to present the results of a survey in Olt County that considered the link between the sustainable development of the county region through the actors that make it up: a new generation of young farmers. As a main tool of the analysis, a questionnaire was completed and applied to 170 beneficiaries of sub-measure 6.1. "The installation of the young farmer". The implementation of the questionnaires resulted in a series of benefits that young farmers obtained, but also the difficulties they encounter in their activity. We could see that the financial benefits obtained by young farmers through sub-measure 6.1. from the NRDP shows that this system contributes greatly to supporting the level of development of agricultural holdings they own, with positive long-term results on increasing their incomes, improving the quality of life. According to a significant percentage of the 170 farmers participating in the study, one problem they face is mainly related to finding new markets. Many of those interviewed do not have large quantities of agricultural products in order to enter the free market, to be able to negotiate a competitive price, being at the beginning of activity in this field. That is why some consider that a solution for capitalization through cooperatives or producer associations would be a beneficial solution in the future.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 21 ISSUE 3
Written by Bahri KARLI, Arif ÖZUYGUR, Mevlüt GÜL, Bektas KADAKOGLU

In this study, socio-economic structure and producing problems of triticale cultivation farms in Corum province were analysed. The study was carried out in Sungurlu district of Corum Province where the triticale cultivation is intensive in 2019 production period. According to the Neyman method, the sample farms were determined, and the data were obtained by face-to-face interviews with 53 triticale cultivate farmers. The farms were classified according to their size as Group I (≤ 15.00 decares; 18 farms), Group II (15.01-25.00 decares; 16 farms), and Group III (>25.01 decares; 19 farms). Average triticale land presence in farms was 27.26 da, and the share of triticale lands in total land presence was calculated as 9.58 %. It was determined that the average farmers’ age of 46.36 years, duration of education received 8.19 years, an average of 5.02 people per house, and 2.11 years of experience in the farmers’ triticale cultivation. It was determined that the most important problems of the farms having problems in triticale production; were high input costs, proper credit and fertiliser supply, low triticale sales price, cooperation and organisation between farmers, quality seed supply, water and irrigation problems. Triticale has become an important product for human and animal nutrition due to its ability to grow in marginal environments and its nutritional properties. It is thought that triticale production will increase in the coming years in the region if the triticale farmers’ problems are solved.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 21 ISSUE 3
Written by Tamara LEAH, Svetoslav BALIUK, Marina ZAKHAROVA, Liudmila VOROTYNTSEVA

The content of Cu, Zn, Co, Ni, Pb, Cd, Cr, Mn was determined in samples of irrigation water, irrigated and non-irrigated soils of the Lower Dnieper river of Ukraine. The vertical distribution of heavy metals in soils was also determined. The results indicated that irrigation water is not contaminated, and its use cannot lead to excessive accumulation of heavy metals in the soil. The content of heavy metals in the humiferous horizons of both soils is at the background level. The content of mobile forms of Zn, Cd, Ni, Cr, Mn in the humiferous horizon of irrigated soils is slightly higher than in non-irrigated soil. This may be due to a significant change in the soil hydrological regime during irrigation and an increase in the solubility of elements. Most of the elements are characterized by accumulation in the upper humiferous horizon, its content decrease in the first transitional horizon, and transition to the parent rock and in the gleyic horizons.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 21 ISSUE 3
Written by Constantina Cati IACOB (IRIMIA)

This paper aims to present the evolution of agriculture in Prahova County, in the period 2014-2018, analyzing in particular the production of cereals, fruits and vegetables without omitting animal husbandry and the production of milk and eggs. In order to highlight the main trends of agricultural production in Prahova County, the areas cultivated with cereals for grains, oil plants, potatoes, vegetables, as well as the areas occupied by orchards, vineyards and livestock were subjected to analysis. Grain cereals occupy an average of 95,502.4 hectares, being the largest area. This is followed by the average of oil plants with 27,156.6 hectares, followed by vegetables with an average of 4,230 hectares and potato cultivation with an average of 2,530.4 hectares. For the other crops analyzed, there were increases in maize, fodder, barley production and decreases in rye production. The analysis of fruit and vegetable production highlighted the fact that it belongs largely to private property, this being an asset for the development of slang tourism in Prahova County. Analyzing the milk production, a decreasing trend was found over the entire analyzed period.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 21 ISSUE 3
Written by Mihai Valentin HERBEI, Radu BERTICI, Codruta BADALUTA – MINDA, George POPESCU, Florin SALA

Land cover and Land use monitoring is a very complex process for a better understanding of the dynamics of the landscape over a long period of time. Such monitoring cannot be performed without using geospatial methods in the field of remote sensing and Geographic Information Systems (GIS). In this paper was analysed the use of land in the Periurban area of Timisoara in the period 1990-2018 based on data provided by the Copernicus program of the European Union. From the analysis of the data from 1990 to 2018, based on the GIS spatial analyses, it can be concluded that approximately 5,700 hectares have changed their destination. The most significant changes were those in the category Pesterers in Non irrigated arable land (21.8% - 1,256 ha) and the change in the category Non irrigated arable land in Discontinuous urban fabric (18.9% - 1,087 ha), leading to the conclusion both of the urbanization of this periurban area of Timisoara Municipality, but also of the development of the agricultural field. Also, in this study were analysed 3 remote sensing indices determined based on Landsat 8 images, data that can be the basis for a monitoring of urban expansion in western Romania.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 21 ISSUE 3
Written by Liviu MARCUTA, Agatha POPESCU, Alina MARCUTA‚

In this paper we set out to analyze the need to monitor the "water footprint", starting from the fact that water is an indispensable resource for the development of life, and its lack is one of the biggest problems facing the world today, one of the biggest concerns and, at the same time, one of the biggest challenges. Water scarcity is a risk both for the economy and for communities and ecosystems, being influenced by climate change, but also by the irresponsible behaviour of people. Finding solutions to protect this resource is a concern of the modern world in trying to protect sustainable development. The research methodology involved the analysis of the literature, data collection and processing, formulating opinions and conclusions on how to apply smart development principles to find viable solutions to reduce the "water footprint".

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 21 ISSUE 3
Written by Daniela Nicoleta BĂDAN (VOICILĂ), Gina FÎNTÎNERU

The purpose of this study is to analyze the evolution of the volume of direct payments for young farmers from Pillar I of the Common Agricultural Policy (The Young Farmer Payment Scheme) in the period of 2015 to 2019, at national and European level. The study also analyze the links between the volume of the amount authorized for this support scheme and various socio-economic indicators of rural areas in Romania. The statistical data used in the study has been taken from the structured national bases at county level and analyzed using the correlation method. The results of this study is indicating that the support of the payment scheme has contributed to the growth of the share of young farmers numbers, with strong territorial differences. Determining the intensity of the relationship between the volumes of the amount authorized for the payment of young farmers through the first pillar and certain socio-economic variables of the rural environment may contribute to the explanation of certain regional patterns.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 21 ISSUE 3
Written by Mayie M. AMER, Atef M. ELSBAAY

For the synoptic assessment of corn plants content of Ca, and K accurate monitoring of land surface dynamics using remote sensing is needed. We looked at a full resolution dataset from the Medium Resolution satellite Imaging (Sentinel-2) as an open source as an alternative to the costly high resolution the more widely used high-resolution satellite Imaging (Worldview2) data for vegetation monitoring. We compared Sentinel-2 image and Worldview 2 data acquired in 2018 with in situ measured hyperspectral data and metal concentrations in plant samples collected from fields in the study area for this purpose. The current research was conducted on the experimental site during the 2018 corn cropping season (Zea Mayz). Results indicated that: The Difference Vegetation Index (DVI), the Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), the Green Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (GNDVI), and the Leaf Area Index (LAI) were the more sensitive indicators to Ca and K above ground corn plants content. These VIs had R2 values more than 0.5 with the in-situ measurements for the both images. DVI, EVI, and GNDVI performed well in estimating plant dry matter Ca and K content with R2 > 0.5, with a high significant level P-value < 0.001and LAI had a statistically significant impact with a P-value < 0.5 for WV2 image. The Sentinel-2 VIs performed well in estimating plant dry matter Ca and K content with R2 values > 0.5, with a high significant level P-value 0.001. LAI had a statistically significant impact with a P-value < 0.5 with Ca concentration and P-value < 0.01 with K concentration. This study suggests that the moderate resolution satellite images can be used for corn plants Ca and K content.

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