ARHIVELE OLTENIEI - Universitatea din Craiova

Economical and organizatoric development of the collective agricultural households 107graduated a professional tractor driver school or agricultural mechanic thatlasted less than three years. These courses were compulsory and took place for3-4 months, from November 1-15 till March 1-15, being taken 2-3 lessons perweek 10 . The collectivists which couldn’t be remorsed in the three years masszootechnic courses had to attend 10-12 zootechnic conferences which wereorganized within the cultural hostels 11 .Beginning with the year 1962 there were organized courses which lastedfrom 5 to 10 days. In November and December, behind this kind of courses,there were schooled 1700 people: vicepresidents which occupied themselveswith animal growth, plant growing, field keeper, accountants, machine andtractors station mechanics and in January and February, there were schooled2955 people more 12 . The short term courses had as a purpose the qualificationand specialization of the technical-administrative staff within the collectiveagricultural households. Another kind of courses were the ones with a 5 monthslength and they were organized within the professional mechanic schools.These were financed from the republican budget, the SuperiorAgricultural Council giving 1 800 000 lei. In 1963, through the 77th dispozition,there was established the 1964s budget for the preparation of 400 presidents andfield keepers, 120 zootechnical keepers, 80 vegetable keeper, 100 viticulturalkeepers and 120 accountants from collective agricultural households 13 . A specialattention was given also to agricultural schools. So, for the year 1963 there wasmade a budget of 2 694 000lei from which 2 235 600 were for the AgriculturalSchool from Malu Mare, 279 000 lei were for the Agricultural Centre fromCraiova and 179 400lei were for the Agricultural Centre from Calafat 14 . Thesenior year students had to practice exclusively in production according to428/1962 Ministry Council Decree, and the students in the first or second yearonly one semestre 15 .There were organized even postuniversitary courses, non-frequencyform for the economic engineers. They couldn`t subscribe these courses,according to 649/1961 HCM, if they hadn`t been working at least 5 years in theproduction units 16 .For a better understanding of the courses, there had been edited a fewbooks, in different domains, destinated for schools. There had been made techniclibraries which had to content papers with the decrees made within theextraordinary session of the Great National Gathering from April 1962concerning the development of the agricultural production and the economic10 Idem, dos. 41/1962, f. 271-275.11 Ibidem, f. 141-142.12 Idem, dos. 17/1963, f. 2-613 Ibidem.14 Ibidem.15 Ibidem, f. 69-72.16 Idem, dos. 8/1963, f. 60-61.