A European Recommendation: The Agricultural Development of Dobrogea During the Communist Regime

Abstract

For almost half a century following the Romanian annexation of Dobrogea, after the Independence war of 1877-1878, there had been no serious interest on behalf of the country’s government with regards to the education of locals on the cultivation of the territory’s arid soil. Few farms (Hamangia, an agricultural farm, Murfatlar, a winery, and Palas, an animal farm) were insufficiently supported, while their research was aimed locally and never sought the development of the entire region. Thus, during the communist period, the cultivation of Dobrogea’s arid land became a recommendation for Romania on behalf of Europe.