RURAL ECONOMY DEVELOPMENT - A SECTORAL BASED (AGRICULTURE) APPROACH

Abstract

Rural economy problems may be approached from many perspectives. The more and
more evident tendencies are represented by the diminishing of the agriculture
importance within the national economy, the formation of the agri-food sector, the
approach of the agricultural problems in terms of rural development, the integration
into the E.U. and the globalization. Without underestimating these tendencies, I
consider that agriculture remains a component of the national economy with a
special importance, with distinctive features, the nucleus for the formation of
branches and activities upstream and downstream. Even if the agriculture
percentage will continue to decrease within the national production and in the
population employed, its importance will not be diminished; it will increase as long
as life depends on the most „primitive” source – animals and plants – namely
agriculture.