Open AccessTHE INDIVIDUAL SECTOR OF AGRICULTURE IN MOLDOVA AND ITS CONTRIBUTION TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF RURAL AREAS
Author(s) -
Liliana Cimpoies,
Elena I. Semenova
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
proccedings of international scientific conference "rural development 2017"
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Conference proceedings
DOI - 10.15544/rd.2017.114
Subject(s) - agriculture , scope (computer science) , subsistence agriculture , rural area , poverty , scale (ratio) , economics , business , frontier , rural development , dualism , agricultural economics , economic growth , geography , computer science , cartography , archaeology , programming language , medicine , philosophy , epistemology , pathology
Moldovan agriculture is still characterized by a pronounced structural dualism with a very large number of small-scale family farms. The accentuated poverty makes rural economy to flow more and more to a natural subsistence economy, isolating itself from the market economy. The scope of the paper is to assess the farm performance and its contribution to the development of rural areas. The research analysis is based on national statistics and survey data of 723 farms. In order to assess farm performance technical efficiency (TE) and stochastic frontier analysis is used. The contribution of different types of income on the farm development level is analysed through regression analysis. Increasing of farm performance through a higher efficiency and competitiveness could be regarded as the key solution to the low income problem of rural families.