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RUMANIA - CREDIT 



Nevertheless the distribution of landed property in Rumania is far from 

 satisfactory, as is seen from the following table : 



62,832 farmers have less than %- hectare (i) that is 26,426 hectares or 0.34 % 



Side by side with this class of farmer-proprietors there is one of landless 

 agriculturists which comprises from 250,000 to 300,000 families. 



The table we have given shows that there are two classes of landed pro- 

 prietors in Rumania : 



i) Farmers owning a small property of less than 10 hectares. This 

 class is represented by about 920,939 families who own altogether 3,153.675 

 hectares or 40.29 per cent, of the cultivated land. 



2) The class of large proprietors, owning more than 100 hectares, is 

 represented by 4,171 families owning altogether 3,810,351 hectares or 48.69 

 per cent, of the cultivated land. 



Besides these classes there are that of the landless agriculturists, repre- 

 sented by from 250,000 to 300,000 families ; and that of owners of medium- 

 sized properties, of from ten to a hundred hectares, which is represented 

 by only 38,723 families who own 862,800 hectares or 11 per cent, of the 

 cultivated land. 



The work attached to credit transactions with large and with small 

 proprietors has been divided among the various institutions of agricultural 

 credit. Those dealing with the large proprietors are : 

 i) Creiliiul fonder rural, 



2) Banca aqricola. 



Those dealing with the small proprietors are : 



3) Crditul af.ricol si viticol, 



4) Banctle popidare, 



5) Casa rurala. 



We will deal with these institutions later. 



(1) I hectare = 2.47 acres. , 



