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not engaged in the national economic circuit – by lack of pay we understand,
primarily, the peasant’s lack of implication on the level of merchandise
circulation 17 and, therefore, an underdevelopment of the rural market. the
same thing occurs in the three investigated communes where the majority
of the working force in the agricultural domain is unpaid.
More so, in the three communes, efficiency in the agricultural domain
is directly influenced by the insufficient means of production 18 and by the
poor condition these are in. For the national average of 2006, each tractor
would have to work 54 hectares 19 . For the three communes investigated,
the smallest number of hectares to be worked by a tractor was registered in
slava cercheză – 166 ha, while in jurilovca there is a tractor for every 212
ha, and in Sarichioi for every 396 ha.
until now we have not noticed the appearance of new occupations
and activities-industries associated with the presence of high-performing
agricultural equipments. Most of the income still comes from those who
work abroad, the pensions of those who were once wage earners within the
communist industrial environment and salaries (for clerks and other public
sector employees of the village or of the neighboring cities).
II.2.4. Animals
the lippovan communities possess only a limited number of sheep
and goats, as well as donkeys. In the past few years, “the pig from the yard
has become more expensive than the meat you buy from grocery stores”,
so in the investigated communities, large animals which provide meat and
milk can no longer be found within the households, except on occasions.
the village has fully integrated itself in the meat and milk trade, oftentimes
imported.
the reduction of the zootechnical sector is associated with the
decline in the households’ ability to self-sustain, through the agriculture
of subsistence and, at the same time, with the stagnation of the industrial
development of this sector in the rural area.
17 the peasant is only a worker, not a buyer; therefore he does not have access to the
results of his work.
18 the hectare average to be worked by a tractor, in the three communes, is of one
tractor per every 258 hectares.
19 According to the romanian national Institute of Statistics, Annual Statistic 2007,
chapter 14, available in February 2011 at the address http://www.insse.ro/cms/files/pdf/ro/
cap14.pdf.