Study concerning the agricultural exploitation size in Gorj county

Abstract

Gorj County could be considered as representative for territorial administrative unit in South – West developing area of Romania. As a result is relevant to present the problems concerning agricultural exploitations size from Gorj County. The paper approaching matters related to the structure of total exploitations number classified by size and medium surface – according to 2006 agricultural census. If we take a look at medium agricultural surface used in different ways of exploitation, this appear as a very different one, from 1,37 ha in shared land case to 241,53 ha fro the granted land. Related with the regional situation, Gorj County present positive situation as far as the rented and free used units goes (an outrun of reference base of 5,34 and respective 1,07 times), while for the rest is recorded a negative situation – medium surface decreasing from 20,0 % for the land in property, to 57,76 % for other ways of land use.