The Non–Agricultural Activities in the Rural Area–Viable Economic Alternative: Case Study, Romania–South–Muntenia Region

CRETU DANIELA; Andrei Radu Iova

Volume : III, Issue : X, October - 2013

The Non–Agricultural Activities in the Rural Area–Viable Economic Alternative: Case Study, Romania–South–Muntenia Region

Cretu Daniela, Andrei Radu Iova

Abstract :

Two directions of the rural economy are highlighted in South–Muntenia Region in Romania, including the rural area with the village and farms, which are in constant development and non–agricultural activities with territorial specific, which are traditional or in a process of adapting to the market economy. The development of non–agricultural activities evolved upward, with the increase of the rural entrepreneurs that capitalize the potential of the rural environmental features, both in the plains and in the Carpathian and mountainous areas of the region. Thus, the non–agricultural activities have become a viable economic alternative, both within individual farms and within farms units with legal status.