local agenda 21 local plan for sustainable development of bistriþa ...

- show rooms
- birotics repair and maintenance
- fitness halls
- hair styling and cosmetics salons
- ready-made textiles
- shoe repair
- others
The is a continual decrease in the field of small repairs
– watchmaking etc. – for which there is demand on the
market and which could provide employment for
people with handicaps or other problems.
II.1.4 Agriculture
LAND
The entire agricultural surface of Bistrita municipality is
7,775.87 ha. This is divided according to category of
use as follows (March 2004):
- arable– 2,837.79 ha
- pasture – 1,773.16 ha
- hay fields – 1,713.92 ha
- vineyards – 4.84 ha
- orchards – 1,486.16 ha
The share of orchards is 52%, of which 75% is planted
with apple; of the entire agricultural surface, fodder
represents 35%, corn, 34%, potatoes, 11%.
In the zootechnical sector, there are 1,210 heads of
horned cattle and 6,480 heads of sheep.
LAND OWNERSHIP AND ORGANISATION OF
AGRICULTURAL ACTIVITY
There are 4 commercial agricultural firms in the
municipality, all with private capital. Two work in fruit
growing, one vegetable growing and one in field
plantations. There are 37 agricultural operators in the
zootechnical field: 3 for sheep, 2 for horned cattle and
32 for apiculture. Four bull raising associations were
founded.
Bistrita municipality benefits from the contribution of a
research fruit growing unit and several autonomous
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MUNICIPALITY
administrations in the field of forests, land
reclamations, mechanization etc.
THE INSTITUTIONAL SYSTEM OF AGRICULTURE
Bistrita municipality is home to all the institutions involved
in the process of carrying out agricultural activities,
including:
- The department for agriculture and rural
development with
o The unit for breeding and improvement in
Zootechny
o The unit for plant protection
- The Local Inspectorate for Controlling Seeds
and Seeding Material Quality Cluj - Bistrita branch
- The County Office for Cadastre, Geodesy and
Cartography
- The Veterinary Department for sanitary
circumscriptions – food control in markets, a sanitaryveterinary
lab and the Sanitary Police.
- The County School Inspectorate with
agricultural highschool (fruit growing production)
- The Chamber of Commerce, Industry and
Agriculture
- The County Office for Agricultural Consulting
belonging to the National Agency for Agricultural
Consulting
AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION
Although Bistrita municipality has 2,838 ha of arable
land, it does not have normal crop rotation.
Correcting the structure of crop rotation and superintensive
agriculture in the future will help put these
resources to good use, such as:
- balancing the proportion of cereal cultures
- increasing the proportion of technical plants and
vegetables in the field and in protected areas
- increasing the surface of fodder plants, especially
perennial leguminous plants.
The proportion of fruit growing on the agricultural
surface of the municipality is approx. 20%. The area is
favourable to fruit growing, so a slight increase in the
surface of new productive plantations is estimated as
well as the modernisation and reconstruction of the old