Choosing the Size of Agricultural Holdings at the European Union Level - a Decision of their Strategic Management.

The choice of an optimal size of agricultural exploitation becomes vital in the context of a globalized market for agricultural products. It is obvious that the profitability criterion can not be discounted in asserting the financial sustainability of the agricultural exploitation, but it must be resized according to the criteria of sustainable development, assimilated differently to each country. This research starts from the need to maintain a balance in the simultaneous solving of the natural production sustainability of the agricultural exploitation and its financial sustainability. The aim of this research is to create the theoretical and methodological premises necessary for a scientific approach to the problems raised by the choice of a certain optimal size of the agricultural holding without affecting the natural equilibrium. The research will reflect the complex correlations that are established between the size and the economic size of an agricultural holding. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]