Vegetable growing is one of the most intensive branches of agriculture, which is characterized by a high level of consumption of inputs, primarily fertilizers and pesticides. However, vegetable production can also be successfully achieved with reduced use of agrochemicals, actually in a more ecologically acceptable way. The aim of this paper was to examine the attitudes of vegetable producers in the area of eight local government units about ecologically acceptable cultivation practices for these crops. For the purpose of the research, one hundred and sixty vegetable producers were surveyed by questionnaire, and the collected data were processed in the SPSS statistical package, using the descriptive statistics method. The results showed that for 66% of farmers the priority in production is controlled and reduced application of agrochemicals in relation to high yield of vegetables, and also even 90% of producers are ready to shift from conventional to the ecologically acceptable production of vegetables, with the condition of certain benefits, meaning greater incentives for that kind of production. On the other side, direct payments and rural development measures are used by about 60% of surveyed, which may indicate that for expanding the concept of ecologically acceptable production, encompassing greater incentives from the national level, it is necessary to improve knowledge of this concept of production, as well as better applying of existing incentives.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-19DOI: 10.24818/cafee/2019/8/19
R. Munteanu
Innovation is about “new ideas” and social innovation is any activity, law, software, internal procedure, which is implemented for bringing added value into specific area and without those actions, couldn’t be possible to have better outcomes. A decision which is taken by the local authorities and it is improving the welfare it is also a social innovation. Often there is a confusion between “doing my job” and “social innovation”. In public administration there is a real need for social innovation, any good project could be a real social innovation if it brings added value. The paper presents a pilot project, with a target of 35-50 private houses selected in order to create a heterogeneous project with different type of buildings, from different geographic areas from District 1, from different years of construction, with a low level of income for each building, under 1000 euro/units. This last criterion has the roll to sustain and to tackle energy poverty. In terms of novelty, this represents a new approach in Romania, through the project we intend to test and to develop the sustainable and efficient technical solutions.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-19DOI: 10.24818/cafee/2019/8/25
Erzsebet Olariu
Each property has an economic potential. The manifestation of this potential, is analyzed in the form of a system which has a support base and three power plans. They were named generation plan, the action plan and the evolution plan. This system has limits and within the system the economic manifestation is beneficial, both at individual and at socially level, but exceeding these limits creates economic mbalances. These imbalances can be solved by indentfying more easily the causes of exiting, which if are elimineted, their effect disappears. The model of this system is the subtle system, found in every human being.
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