Abstract:

The present paper aims to highlight the importance that managing the utilised agricultural area has in obtaining better results in agriculture. There were chosen to be compared eight member states of the European Union, with different areas, different conditions, different level of development and different way of land exploitation. The study investigates the link between the legal status, the size of the holding and their results, by analysing relevant indicators, and it also formulates, in the conclusion, solutions on how to manage the size of the holding in order to improve the holding activity and its result. Utilised agricultural area of a state reflects the measure in which the agriculture represents an important occupation and income source for the population. The agriculture represents a basic branch of the economy, but an underperforming practicing of agriculture, incapable to supply satisfying results raises problems for some states.  As Popescu (2001) mentioned, “the relation between land property and agricultural exploitation has represented a permanent concern in history”.