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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 17 ISSUE 4
Written by Daniela CREŢU, Andrei Radu IOVA, Elena LASCĂR

Under the current conditions, in which the Romanian economy still faces serious structural problems, corroborated with the global economic crisis, it is absolutely natural to consider as extremely important the financial support granted by the European Union to Romania as a safe source of financing and necessary for the development of the Romanian state as a whole in order to recover significant differences from other European states. The research starts from the premise that there is a correlation between the degree of maturity of the project management in the Romanian society, in general, within South Muntenia Development Region in particular, and the results obtained in attracting and implementing the European funds. We presented the objectives and the results obtained following the implementation of the projects in the education sector through SOP HRD 2007-2013 in South Muntenia Region, the impact on the beneficiaries of the financed projects in order to identify good practices and to formulate proposals that contribute to the improvement of the project management, respectively to the improvement of the impact of projects on the performance of organizations implementing them and on the effectiveness of the development and implementation of the regional strategies and policies. For the programming period 2007-2013, 195 open calls for proposals were launched, out of which 43 open calls for proposals effectively covered the education sector. The total financial amount allocated was 7,020,363,692.85 lei approximately 1,651,850,280.67 euros. It also presents an analysis of the questionnaire applied in the research and conclusions on the impact of the funding obtained by the educational sector.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 17 ISSUE 3
Written by Emeka OSUJI, Obasi UKOHA, Jude NWARU, Christian ONYENWEAKU

The study was designed to examine the impact of sustainable soil management techniques on land productivity of arable crop farmers in Imo State, Nigeria. Despite various efforts to produce basic foods for the increasing population in Nigeria, the track record of performance over the years has proved abortive. This stems from the use of variant unsustainable soil management techniques which are concomitant to soil erosion, nutrient depletion and decline in food production. Multi-stage random sampling technique was used to select 209 arable crop farmers. Objectives of this study were elicited from the sampled respondents through a well structured questionnaire. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistical tools, average treatment effect (ATE) and local average treatment effect (LATE) models. Results showed that farmers in the area have varied knowledge of sustainable soil management techniques (SSMT). The PSM and IPSW estimates were N141.14 and N97.06 respectively while the LATE by WALD and IV were N152.26 and N158.17. This implies that the use of SSMT has an impact on the productivity of land per unit increase in rent. Hence, farmers at all level should be encouraged to practice efficient soil management techniques in order to improve the productivity of the land.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 17 ISSUE 3
Written by Emeka OSUJI, Obasi UKOHA, Jude NWARU, Christian ONYENWEAKU

Effective land management techniques are sine qua-non for increased outputs and income of the farmers. Hence, this study evaluated the impact of sustainable soil management techniques on net income of arable crop farmers in Imo State, Nigeria. Multi-stage random sampling technique was used to select 209 arable crop farmers. Objectives of this study were elicited from the sampled respondents through a well structured questionnaire. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistical tools, average treatment effect (ATE) and local average treatment effect (LATE) models. The socio-economic features of the farmers reveals a mean age of 53 years, 6 persons per household, 6 years educational attainment, 17 years farming experience and 1.0 hectare of land. The LATE estimates by WALD and (IV) were given as N50, 186.91/ha and N61,456.02/ha. These estimates showed that the use of sustainable soil management techniques had a positive relationship with the farmers’ net income and was highly significant at 1 percent statistical level. Hence, there is the need for corporate bodies through the extension agents and other agricultural officers to educate the rural farmers on the importance of using improved farming techniques for increased net income.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 17 ISSUE 3
Written by Nnamdi Chukwuemeka EHIRIM, Emeka Emmanuel OSUJI

Efficient use of sustainable soil management techniques has proven to be a panacea for poverty reduction among farmers. Hence this study examined the Impact of sustainable soil management techniques on poverty levels of arable crop farmers in Imo State, Nigeria. Multi-stage sampling technique was used to select 209 arable crop farmers. Information on the objectives of this study was elicited from the sampled respondents through a well structured questionnaire. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistical tools, poverty index, average treatment effect (ATE) and local average treatment effect (LATE) models. Results showed that the mean per capita consumption expenditure among the farm households was N360.30 ($1.81) while the poverty line was N240.20 ($1.21) per person, per day. Over 70% of the respondents accounted for the number of poor in the area, while 21.5% accounted for the non-poor people. The result further showed that the use of sustainable soil management techniques reduced the poverty level of the farmers by 13.1 percent and 18.9 percent from WALD and IV estimators. Hence, appropriate government policies should be directed towards encouraging the rural farmers to embrace the use of improved farming techniques for increased output and poverty reduction.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 15 ISSUE 4
Written by Adelaida Cristina HONŢUŞ, Alina MĂRCUŢĂ, Cristiana TINDECHE, Liviu MĂRCUŢĂ

This study presents the origins and manifestations of the economic crisis that started in 2008 at both world level and in the European Union. In both cases the study analyzes also some of the measures undertaken in order to overpass the crisis and their results. During the same year, 2009, the European Union witnessed a decline of its GDP by 4.4 %, while the Euro zone had a decline of 4.5 %. Only from this synthetic data results a conclusion that the European Union and the Euro zone were more affected by the economic crisis than the rest of the world. This situation remained true in 2013 and 2014. In 2013 the world economy had a growth rate of its GDP of 2.3 % while European Union had a growth rate of 0.1 % and the Euro zone of – 0.5 % (World Bank Data). In 2014, according to the forecasts of the World Bank the world economy had a growth rate of 2.6 % while the Euro zone of only 0.9 % (World Bank Data) and the European Union as a whole of 1.3 % (Forecast for European Union for 2014 from Eurostat). A second part of the study is focused on the situation of European Union from the perspective of the current year, 2015, as well as from the point of view of the prospects for 2015 and the coming years.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 18 ISSUE 1
Written by Emeka OSUJI, Uchechi ANYANWU, Melissa OKWARA, Akunna TIM-ASHAMA

The use of variant agricultural practices has marred the productivity of the farmers to an immeasurable extent. Hence the study evaluated the implications of agricultural practices on land productivity of the farming households in Imo State, Nigeria. Multi-stage sampling technique was used to select 120 crop farmers from the three agricultural zones of the State. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and ordinary least squares multiple regression technique. Results showed that farmers have a mean household size of 7 persons, 19 years farming experience with a net income of N84, 000 per cropping season. Result further showed farmers completed their post primary education and cultivated less than 2.0 hectares per unit area of land. The use of agricultural practices such as crop rotation, continuous cropping, bush burning, mixed cropping and mulching are significant at various levels and therefore have strong implications on land productivity of the farmers. Farmers are faced with series of constraints’ such as capital, technical known-how, land tenure difficulties, etc. which limits land productivity and adoption capacity of the farmers. Hence farmers are encouraged to drop agricultural practices that are concomitant to land productivity and embrace improved ones that are technically appropriate, socially acceptable, environmentally friendly and economically suitable.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 14 ISSUE 4
Written by Cristiana TINDECHE, Alina MĂRCUŢĂ, Liviu MĂRCUŢĂ

Agriculture is an important branch of the national economy, with various functions such as: main source of business activity that uses the workforce, ecological factor for the protection of the environment, technical and cultural tradition, representing a civilization in itself. This paper shows that, in Romania, agriculture has an extremely special position, being one of the primary branches of material production, taking into account that the economic and social growth of the contemporary world is in close connection with the level of accomplishments in agriculture and it cannot exist outside a strong development of this production branch. Because the agricultural sector is currently growing, now, in 2014, we can see a considerably large migration from the urban area to the rural area. Young people choose villages and not cities being influenced also by the agricultural schemes offered by the European Union, schemes that support the needs of the agricultural field.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 16 ISSUE 4
Written by Aurelia LITVIN, Svetlana PETRASCU

This work reflects results of the study on the improvement of the investment climate and the analysis of foreign direct investments in the economy of the Republic of Moldova. At present the basic priorities of the Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Moldova are the improvement of the investment climate in order to enhance the quality of life, the improvement of tools designed to attract foreign and local investors, as well as the promotion of local products in order to increase the competitiveness of economy. This is explained by the fact that investments increase the competitiveness of businesses, facilitate technology transfer, create new jobs and stimulate foreign trade, which are the basic elements in the process of development and implementation of policies aimed to attract investments and promote export.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 18 ISSUE 4
Written by Mikhail Yakovlevich VESELOVSKY, Vladimir Gavrilovich SAVENKO, Inna Vladimirovna BITKINA, Natalia Lvovna KRASYUKOVA, Aleksandr Annayarovich STEPANOV

The article reveals the problems of the development and improvement of the activity of entities of agricultural consulting in Russia in the period of the large-scale modernization of the agroindustrial complex. Special attention is paid to the problem of participation of the educational institutions subordinated to the Ministry of Agriculture in the consulting activity and to promoting the innovative activity of the participants in the innovative process. The current state of the institute of agricultural consulting, the main results of the activity in 2017 and the proposals for its development for the mid-term perspective are described. The priority directions and the strategy for the development of agricultural consulting are formulated in regard to the modernization of agricultural production, structural changes in its organization and the development of the system of agricultural consulting. The main directions of development of the institute of agricultural consulting, the main performed functions and the expected results are represented, as well as their impact on improving the quality of the informational and consulting support of agricultural production. The necessity of corrections of the conceptual essentials of the complex development of the institute of agricultural consulting is grounded including the ones organized with participation of educational institutions.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 15 ISSUE 4
Written by Mohamed GHONAME, Tarek FOUDA

The main objectives of this study were to provide thermal comfort environment, reduce heating for energy requirements and specific heating for power and maximize meat production. The air heating system performance was evaluated under with and without duct during the life cycle of 1 to 5 weeks of age. The results showed that, at first brooding stage using forced- air heating system without perforated poly -ethylene tube the air temperature at height of 0.25m above floor the air temperature close to the floor was lower than the recommended by 4.11°C and 4.64°C at 2 and 8 day of age, respectively. While, using it with perforated poly ethylene tube the air temperature close to the floor was higher than the recommended temperature by 0.12°C and lower than the recommended by 3.36°C at 3 and 8day of age, respectively. Average indoor air relative humidity through the birds' life when using heater with perforated poly- ethylene tube reduced by 12.92% comparing with using heater without perforated polyethylene tube. Using perforated poly - ethylene tube reduce total energy requirements and specific heating power by 17.84 and 20.82% at the end of life and increased average body weight from 1.9 to 2.1 kg at fifth week of age. Hence, it is recommended to operate forced - air heating system using perforated poly - ethylene tube to obtain thermal comfort environment, reduce heating energy requirements, and specific heating power and maximize meat production

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