Annals of the University of Oradea: Economic Science (Dec 2019)
THE ECONOMIC EFFICIENCY FOR A SUPER-INTENSIVE IRRIGATED BLUEBERRY CULTURE
Abstract
Fruit growing is one of the main horticultural branches and deals with the research, study and knowledge of the organic and ecological peculiarities of the fruit species, aiming to establish appropriate technological measures in order to obtain high, constant and high quality crops. Fruit tree culture is important from the economical and social point of view. The tree culture is the main source of the existence, significant part of the population of the country is working directly in the plantations of trees, in the fruit-processing industry, in the fruit trade, in the transport enterprises and in the machinery industries, insecticides, packs, etc. Fruit plantations represent an investment with long lifetime exploitation, so mistakes in setting up are not acceptable, as they are practicable and are spread over the entire exploitation period. In Romania, horticulture continues to hold a particularly important status, although it goes through one deep process of property restructuring and exploitation system. The performance of the horticultural sector has been low. Lack of competitiveness is reflected by low productivity, low economic growth and a balance deficit agro-food trade, given that agriculture and horticulture are failing to keep the step with the increasing demand for food, driven by rapid general economic growth, and unable to cope with foreign competition, especially in the European Union. This paper is intended to be a technical (theoretical and practical) basis on establishment and maintenance of the species studied (blueberry), including economic efficiency as well as special references to the studies carried in Bihor County, both results and concrete references on how to set up and maintain plantations, under the climatic conditions in Bihor County area, as well as calculation the economic efficiency of these in the following years until harvest. It can be a starting point for preparing young people to better understand the principles of super-intensive culture systems and their economic significance and efficiency.
