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Agriculture Reconstruction in the Suburban Areas of Bistrita Municipality
Starting with the Middle Ages, the German colonists firstly introduced the cultivation of vineyards in the suburban areas of the city; later on, they gradually planted individual orchards as well as grain and maize fields. During the communist period, the entire suburban territory of the city was turned into a new apple and plum orchard area and farmers started practicing other agricultural activities, such as dairy farming. Once with the collapse of the centralized economy in 1989, many of the vineyards and a great part of the intensive orchards were abandoned by the individual owners, who were financially and technologically incapable to sustain modern intensive agricultural activities. Concurrently, people shifted to individual cultivation of small parcels under corn and maize, fact that reflects the reconversion to subsistence agriculture. The city market is currently monopolized by imported fruit and vegetables, which imposes a reassessment of agriculture in the suburban areas of Bistriţa Municipality and its adaptation to the urban needs under all aspects. This adaptation must be accomplished in accordance with the concept of suburban agriculture, the accurate territorial situation, the bio-edaphic and morphological potential of the area, the present needs of urban population, as well as with the situation of agricultural fields and their distribution. Our research tries to reflect the way in which a subsistence type of agriculture based on a high fragmentation of land property can be turned into a modern suburban type of agriculture. Our attempts have been facilitated by the real interest the local administration manifests towards supporting and promoting a sustainable development in the Bistriţa area, where the large territory used for agricultural activities allows suburban agriculture play the central role in this process. Bistriţa municipality represents one of the first cities that benefited from studies regarding integrated territorial development. These studies helped to set a series of measures for the reorientation of traditional agriculture towards an intensive market one, such as: local policies for the reorganizing of proprieties, allotting some public property land to tenants for temporary use, and changing the economic destination of the degraded fields.
Agriculture Reconstruction in the Suburban Areas of Bistrita Municipality
Starting with the Middle Ages, the German colonists firstly introduced the cultivation of vineyards in the suburban areas of the city; later on, they gradually planted individual orchards as well as grain and maize fields. During the communist period, the entire suburban territory of the city was turned into a new apple and plum orchard area and farmers started practicing other agricultural activities, such as dairy farming. Once with the collapse of the centralized economy in 1989, many of the vineyards and a great part of the intensive orchards were abandoned by the individual owners, who were financially and technologically incapable to sustain modern intensive agricultural activities. Concurrently, people shifted to individual cultivation of small parcels under corn and maize, fact that reflects the reconversion to subsistence agriculture. The city market is currently monopolized by imported fruit and vegetables, which imposes a reassessment of agriculture in the suburban areas of Bistriţa Municipality and its adaptation to the urban needs under all aspects. This adaptation must be accomplished in accordance with the concept of suburban agriculture, the accurate territorial situation, the bio-edaphic and morphological potential of the area, the present needs of urban population, as well as with the situation of agricultural fields and their distribution. Our research tries to reflect the way in which a subsistence type of agriculture based on a high fragmentation of land property can be turned into a modern suburban type of agriculture. Our attempts have been facilitated by the real interest the local administration manifests towards supporting and promoting a sustainable development in the Bistriţa area, where the large territory used for agricultural activities allows suburban agriculture play the central role in this process. Bistriţa municipality represents one of the first cities that benefited from studies regarding integrated territorial development. These studies helped to set a series of measures for the reorientation of traditional agriculture towards an intensive market one, such as: local policies for the reorganizing of proprieties, allotting some public property land to tenants for temporary use, and changing the economic destination of the degraded fields.
Agriculture Reconstruction in the Suburban Areas of Bistrita Municipality
ZOTIC, Vasile (author) / PUIU, Viorel (author) / ALEXANDRU, Diana (author)
2010-02-12
doi:10.15835/buasvmcn-agr:3773
Bulletin of University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Cluj-Napoca. Agriculture; Vol 66, No 1 (2009): Bulletin of University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Cluj-Napoca. Agriculture ; 1843-5386 ; 1843-5246
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