Romania's Current Agrarian Structure: A Great (and Unsolved) Social and Economic Problem of the Country

Abstract

The present paper is based on the idea according to which the present situation of the Romanian agriculture, its development level and the development of rural area in its most part, are largely determined by Romania's agrarian structure. The paper investigates Romania's current agrarian structure by size classes of agricultural holdings, as well as its evolution in almost one century (1921 - the great agrarian reform - 2011) and its implications upon the population's social situation in the rural area.

Keywords

• agrarian structure
• agricultural holding
• rural development
• rural poverty