CORRELATIONS BETWEEN THE PROFESSIONAL TRAINING OF THE FARM MANAGERS AND THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF THE FARMS IN OLT COUNTY

Abstract

The importance of formal and continuous education in every field of expertise is essential, due to the great influence of the human factors in every work activity. The work in agriculture has the distinctive characteristic of being dependent of minor and major disturbances in climate, economic, social and technological factors of the working environment, thus a manager of an agriculture holding is obliged to keep being informed on all these changes in this environment in order to perform on the agricultural activity. In this matter, the degree of theoretical and practical knowledge of a farm manager is a good precursor of the performance of the farm owned by the manager. In this paper, we will present the results of a statistical research whose purpose consists in the determination of the degree of correlation between the professional training background of the farmers and the performance of the agricultural holding managed by them. The research consisted in the analysis of a number of responses to a survey that was applied on the farmers in the geographical region of Olt County in southern Romania, with a main focus point on the basic professional training, only practical professional training and full agricultural vocational training. The analysis was performed using the Chi square test and statistical testing of the deviations between the mentioned types of training.