Romania loses 1 million hectares of ploughable land to constructions

Romania’s ploughable land area diminished from 9.5 million hectares to 8.6 million hectares, according to the country’s Agriculture Minister Valeriu Tabara. 1,000 hectares of ploughable land was taken out of the agriculture circuit in each county between 2002 and 2008, to make room for various constructions and for the expansion of cities or villages.The number of agricultural exploitations went down from 4.4 million to 3.8 million, after agricultural land was consolidated and smaller ...

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