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Information technology has been playing an increasingly important role in modern economic activity. The dynamic and unpredictable nature of combining factors of production in agriculture has slowed down the development of computer applications and their use widely, but lately a remarkable progress has been made in this direction. This study focuses on the identification of data required for land management at farm-level in Romania, as reflected in incidental legislation in this field and its application in practice. The research consists of a legislation review and scientific literature, in order to design a computerized module for managing land resources, as well as discussion of the results from the testing process in a study sample of six commercial farms. The study reveals that excessive fragmentation of land in Romania requires a significant effort to record and manipulate data, and non-harmonized terminology and approach at the institutional level create additional problems. It was also found that the recorded data is not sufficiently capitalized nationwide, each institution having its own filing system, uncorrelated with other databases. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper proposes is to analyze the current situation and prospects of the Romanian agricultural and rural economy and to recommend actions to reduce potential risks of fully integration of Romanian agricultural economy in the rural economy of the European Union. This paper tries to provide an updated the agricultural diagnosis and rural development in Romania and assess the global implications on the rural economy diversification and create new jobs. The subject includes theoretical addressing agricultural management system and characteristics of the studied phenomena, directed and coordinated contemporary management. Recent research shows that changes in agriculture and rural development are reflected in the economic downturn, the occurrence of demographic problems (increased distances between work and home, low rural population), changes in social structure, refocusing on value systems, pressures arising ecosystems, destruction of cultural heritage areas, and reducing income disparity, changing habitat preferences (second homes in the village). Integrating agriculture into the market economy, technical and economic modernization is done with great difficulty due to various reasons: lack of capital and a well organized credit system, inadequate material resources, dependence on upstream prices due to high input sites industrial and agricultural nature, but also downstream, and following the disruption of agricultural contracting system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]