Agricultural Land Market in the Republic of Moldova: Achievements and Prospects
Agricultural Land Market in the Republic of Moldova: Achievements and Prospects

Summary/Abstract: The last decades of the last century in the Republic of Moldova, as in a number of other European countries, were highlighted as a period of socio-economic changes of exaggerated proportions. The absolute dominance of state property, being a consequence of the revolutionary experiment since 1917, served as a main cause of the backward living conditions of the country's population, the permanent lack of food in shops and local markets, miserable salaries, etc. At the same time, the state authorities for a period of at least 10 years (1990–2000) by all means delayed the start of real reforms of the national economy. Only in 1998 was the National Program "Land" launched, according to which agricultural lands of approximately two thousand agricultural enterprises were subjected to the privatization process with the subsequent revitalization of both private ownership and the free market for agricultural land in the Republic of Moldova. The detailed analysis of the local agricultural land market over the last almost 25 years, the identification of both the results obtained and the unsolved problems with the indication of scientifically substantiated ways of solving them, serves as the main purpose of this article.

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