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106Narcisa Mituagricultural transformation”. The socialist forms of property owned now 96%from the arable surface of the country and 93.4% from the agricultural surface 4 .In march 25, the same year, in Oltenia, from a total surface of 2 030 000ha of the region, 1 024 158 ha had been collectivized. Within the collective, atthe moment there were 353 936 families 5 . From the same total surface of 2 030000 ha, the state agricultural households had 142 121 ha total surface (135 112ha agricultural surface), the agricultural individual households had 98 875 ha (92173 ha agricultural surface) and the other sectors had the rest of the 757 846 ha(151 851 ha agricultural surface) 6 .Now, the collectivization being ended, it had to be passed a bigprogramme of modernization of this branch of national economy and to increasethe production / ha. The plenary session of the Central Committee of PMR fromApril 23-25, 1962, determined the party organization duties about the increaseon a higher level of the whole organized work and political-educational one, inthe middle being the economical - organizatoric reinforcement of the collectiveagricultural households and the increase of the animal and vegetal production,this way these could become very well developed units 7 .Within this purpose, through the may 12th 1962 HCM, it was enforcedto bring well trained workers in the households: agricultural engineers,zootechnicians and vets 8 . To acquire these people, the agricultural education hadto develop more. A bigger attention got the zootechnic education, which duringthe 1961-1962 years included 570 000 peasants, and in 1964 more than 130 000collectivists. Starting with the years 1958-1959, it was included in the educationplan of the seven years school, a course of agricultural knowledge, which wouldunfold for three years and the practice would take place in agriculture 9 .Within the Central Committee of PMR and the Ministry Councildecision, the three years courses would take place at work so that the studentswouldn`t be taken out from the production process. A great attention was givenmostly to young people that hadn’t been 40-50 years old. The courses, prelectedby engineers, vets, agricultural technicians and other personnel were organizedabove different matters : the growing of field plants, the growing of animals, andwithin the collective agricultural households where the fruit growing and theviticulture were very advanced, were taken specific courses.Within the collective agricultural households and the machine andtractors stations, the courses had to be taken by all the students which had4Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, Raport cu privire la încheierea colectivizării şireorganizarea conducerii agricole, prezentat la sesiunea extraordinară a Marii AdunăriNaţionale, 27 aprilie 1962, Bucureşti, Political Publishing House, 1962, p. 5.5 DJAS Dolj, Fond Sfatul Popular Regiunea Oltenia, Consiliul Agricol, dos. 65/1962, f. 2.6 Ibidem, f. 4.7 Idem, dos. 48/1962, f. 5-10.8 Idem, dos.62/1962, f. 481-488.9 Ibidem, f. 490.