THE EVOLUTION OF ROMANIAN VILLAGE THROUGH COOPERATION

Abstract

Romanian village was found in a continuous transformation process, fact which has led to the transformation of the rural localities specific and both of the demographic, occupational and values coordinates of the population. The cooperation movement from Romania has an old tradition, the first forms of association in rural area being born in Transylvania in 1851. The Romanian agricultural cooperative has continuously grown in the years of the Great Depression from 1929-1933, being recommended the involvement of the cooperatives in grain trade in order to eliminate the intermediaries and adopting a more efficient production structure. The cooperation in communist Romania (1948-1989) is characterized by the existence of the Agricultural Production Cooperatives, which had a benefic effect on the development of Romanian agriculture in general and especially on the Romanian village, but they reached the upper limit of the progressive potential long before the 1989 and did not have too much common elements with the principles of Western cooperation. Currently the Romanian village is a semi-abandoned place, the appreciation being the number one priority for its reconstruction. It is the only solution in order to development the agriculture and crafts circles. Romanian Agriculture after 1989 and Romanian villages such as had some changes less spectacular as in other fields of activity. The changes of the ownership regime and the redefinition of the economic life coordinates registered in Romania after 1989 have led to the appearance of a new social economic reality in rural area.