POST-PRIVATIZATION RESTRUCTURING OF AGRICULTURE OF THE REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA

Abstract

More than two decades after the completion of the mass privatization of land and other types of fixed assets, the agriculture of the Republic of Moldova is still inadequately structured, characterized by relatively low labor productivity and productivity of agricultural land, as well as a poorly developed livestock sector. Incomes of rural residents also remain relatively low, as a result of which a significant part of former workers of agricultural industry, primarily young people, emigrate to the cities of the republic and even beyond its borders in search of more decent and better paid jobs. Based on the results of a detailed and systematic analysis of the agrarian sector at the initial stage of its post-privatization development, the scientists of our institute have identified a number of specific features, the essence of which can be expressed as follows – "privatization is complete, the reform continues." We are talking about structural changes in the agriculture, about transferring its productive forces to an intensive, competitive framework, based on new economic realities, new production relations, first of all, qualitatively new property relations.