Fermele de subzistenţă, o problemă mai mult umană decât economică

Abstract

The subsistence farms are not the farms complying with the community definition and most of them could never become farms because of the social function they have. These exploitations will exist, as long as the active rural population, but also the inactive one will not have other subsistence support. They are mainly based on the manual labour and is typical for the agriculture with reduced performances. The subsistence agriculture play a major role for the rural population as the auto consumption is important for wide range of products. Iasi county has still got a lot of subsistence farms census of 2004 there were 145000 of individual exploitations on a total area of 213,840 ha with an average area of 1.47 ha each, meaning that 56% of the Iasi county total area is fragmented in small plots. By means of various stimulating politics of some alternative income sources, the subsistence farms will be encouraged to develop complementary activities or to take benefits of the measures stipulated in the National Plan of Rural Development (N.P.R.D.): the possibilities to use the structural funds and to practice an intensive and super-intensive agriculture; reducing the number of those who can’t apply for the structural funds by the enforcement of the measures of life annuity benefit and the anticipant retirement; association in fields for the performance of agro-technical works, observing the propriety right and the fertility class.