Fragmentation of agricultural land represents a significant challenge for agriculture in Romania, with direct effects on productivity and land exploitation efficiency, thus requiring the practice of an extensive farming system and making it impossible to implement an intensive farming system. Therefore, this major division of agricultural land leads to several disadvantages such as higher costs for farmers (especially in terms of transportation, the need for a larger number of smaller machinery, and an increase in the number of employees required), limited mechanization, and inefficient distribution of fertilizers, pesticides, and irrigation water. This paper aims to analyze the degree of fragmentation of agricultural land in the Ghilad locality based on data obtained directly from local farmers as well as from my own farm. Thus, after studying the land declarations over several years between 2014-2024, from three agricultural farms in the commune, I compiled tables and graphs that summarize the collected data in order to highlight the issue faced by farmers. Therefore, I observed that the agricultural parcel areas range from a minimum of 0.25 hectares (cultivated with dry beans) to a maximum of 23.58 hectares of communal permanent pasture used individually. However, for field crops, the maximum area is 11.77 hectares.

cropping system, typology, farming, soil

agronomy

Presentation: poster