1. THE NECESSITY OF RECONSTRUCTION, MODERNIZING AND DEVELOPMENT IN RESPECT TO THE NATIONAL VINE CULTIVATION PATRIMONY AFTER THE AGRARIAN REFORM OF 1921.
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Aurel, Popa
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LAND reform ,SEED beds ,CULTURAL property ,WORLD War I ,HARVESTING time ,CLIMBING plants ,VINEYARDS ,PLANTATIONS - Abstract
The two highly unfortunate yet greatly important events which have rather quickly indeed succeeded one to the other during the former two centuries (that is to say the attack of the phylloxera upon all of the vineyards throughout Europe and consequently in Romania which had been rather shortly afterwards followed by the burst of World War I) have intensely weakened the whole of the until then economically very successful fabric that had been functioning throughout Europe and therefore as well in Romania in what did concern the respective professions of viticulture and wine-making. As a common but most pernicious side-effect of the above mentioned events the scientific research in regard to these disciplines had to be delayed if not abruptly interrupted. This is why after the war both as money-making professions as well as scientific disciplines the domains of viticulture and wine-making have found themselves forced to cope with a large number of unavoidably occurring great difficulties against which they had to stand and to strive with. Apart from the destructions and the other various nuisances which had been generated due to the military operations that had been carried on throughout the respective territories of the concerned viticultural regions the baneful consequences caused in its aftermath by the disaster which had been brought in by the phylloxera had also started to gradually reveal themselves until their gravest levels. Among these highly unfortunate consequences let us mention the loss of the uniqueness that had been the definitory feature of the sorts of kinds of vines; obsoleteness had touched the respective and traditionally validated harvest dates; the distinctive wine-making traditional techniques had also come to be useless; unavoidably then the respective features and organoleptic assets formerly held as distinctive by each of these sorts of kinds of vines had come to be diminished and this is how the once well-known and specific personalities of each of the formerly issued wines – which in the past had all of them been duly and rigorously taxonomized by precisely defined types – had come to gradually fade away. As a direct consequence of this latter phenomenon a large number of kinds of vine have then been brought in Romania but their respective indigenous countries and oeno-climate zones have indeed been offering cultivation conditions which had been obviously different from the ones which do exist in our country. A lot of rough seed beds had thus appeared in Romania which had more or less clandestinely been created by the ones among the producers of the offspring planting material who had been hankering for some too easily gained money – or the most available technique that could enable them to reach for this goal was precisely the intentful multiplying of directly productive hybrids. Due to the agrarian reform that had been enforced in 1921 the viticulturally effective land surfaces which had respectively come to be owned by the newly endowed people not only did keep on decreasing bit by bit but they had been also gradually deprived from the materially embodied technical resources they would have needed in order to appropriately maintain and most successfully exploit their own viticultural plantations. As a matter of fact around 1921 and as well for some further time afterwards in our country the viticultural and wine-making domains had come to be ruled in accordance with four different laws which yet were all simultaneously enforced upon our territory (that is to say the respectively Romanian, Hungarian, Austrian and Russian ones). It was then under these precise local circumstances that the great economical crisis of 1929- 1933 had "made the choice" to supervene. Should we be fully aware of the effective existence at that time of this whole bunch of difficulties we would indeed be able to better understand and evaluate the actions which had been officially taken immediately after the agrarian reform of 1921 as well as the multiple efforts which had been carried on upon its behalf. These latters have namely concerned the duly required restoration, the most appropriate modernizing and the further development of the national viticultural patrimony (should these taken actions have pertained to the organisational, administrative and legislative processes or either to the scientific research and academic training activities). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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