ASSESSEMENTS OF ROMANIAN FARMS’ ECONOMIC PROFILE, THROUGH SAMPLE SURVEY ON SUSTAINABLE LAND USAGE

A fundamental element in designing sustainable rural development strategies consists in evaluation the economic capacity of the production structures in agriculture. Since land use is a primary determinant of ecosystem vulnerability, affecting the soil regeneration, biodiversity, or landscape, the paper aims at investigating the economic potentials conferred by the agricultural area usage in the Romanian farms. By using methods consisting in quantitative and qualitative analyses, based on data supplied by a survey upon land resources management, the outcome consists in assessments, at sample level and regional aggregation, using specific indicators and correlations by ownership operating structures, categories of land usage and size classes of the investigated agricultural holdings.