Land structure evolution in Romania: An essay of land policy analysis
1994
Dumitru, M.
The present decollectivisation movement in Romania must be seen with the context of the agrarian structure history. Since the establishment of modern property rights, up till now, despite an entire wave of agrarian reforms, Romanian agriculture has revealed an unsuitable size structure and an unsatisfactory state of business. If the waves of land reform occurred at the beginning of this century temporarily establishing the agricultural pattern based on peasant family farm its consolidation has quickly been dissipated by the advent of forced land collectivisation. The extent to which the collectivisation as well as the present decollectivisation process have attempted to answer the economic requirements more than the socio-political ones, constitutes the basic question of this paper. Four years after the enforcement of Land Fund Law, at least one conclusion becomes obvious: trying to answer the requirements of market economy's implementation, the decollectivisation process favoured socio-political motivations. As a result, in a great extent, the land shifted from agricultural operators to non-agricultural owners. Numerous subjective and objective obstacles slowed down the reform greatly diminishing the chance of Romanian agriculture's recovery. In front of these realities, structural policy must be applied at the same time with the continuation of reform
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