Studies regarding the evolution of agriculture associations in Iaşi County for designing viable farms

Abstract

The area of arable land in Iaşi County did not change significantly in the period 2006-2008, but a slight increase was noticed in arable areas as size in the private sector, in comparison with those operated by the state. The tendency to raise the number of family associations from 280 in 2006 to 340 in 2008 was noticed, which means an increase of almost twice. An increase of more than twice was recorded in the area of arable land of this type of holding in 2008, compared to 2006. As concerns the peculiarities of the associative forms of Iaşi County, we have accomplished the modelling of the agricultural production for farms of 25.50, 80 and 110 ha in the hilly area. These differentiations were made taking into consideration the reports indicated by the Government Order 108/2001 and the information collected from the literature on the size of the farms in various areas of agricultural production. Because of a relatively small number of crops and some restrictions in number, we have applied the method of multiple choices. For each module, there has been taken a number of conventional animals - AC, which is determined by the possibilities of farmers to ensure dairy production, especially in compliance with livestock sanitary rules imposed by the European Union.