Research Regarding the Public-Private Partnership Capacity in Order to Participate to the
Performance of Agriculture, for ITS Economic, Social and Environment Efficiency - ADER 21.1.1

                                                Gabriel Popescu and Corina Moga

                              Centrul de Studii și Cercetări de Biodiversitate Agrosilvică  "Acad. David Davidescu", București 

Keywords: agriculture; information generating added value; public-private partnership; knowledge transfer market.

 Abstract: The present society, which is at the intersection between the industrial and the knowledge-based society, is economically conditioned by both resources and progress. Resources provide the guarantee of operation, while progress ensures increased performance. In the competitive market, the progress holders chances are much higher than those of the resource holders. The classic producers of the progress factors, with an innovative role, are mainly academic and university research institutions in the public domain, and closer to the present, there are also actors from the private sphere. In the composition of the consumers of progress factors, in agriculture, all categories of commercial or autarchic producers are included, to which are added the actors of the product chain and others. The need for knowledge in agriculture is determined by the fact that in the subsistence farms, which represent 99% of the total, 96% of farmers have only practical experience and only 1.6% have higher education.
The circulation of new information generating added value (which ensures progress) in the market of knowledge transfer, occurs through specific vectors (channels). The institutional framework in which these vectors can become operational is extremely diverse. With recognized performances, however, are non-profit associative entities that can facilitate public-private partnerships. In this context, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MADR) within the Sectoral Plan for the years 2023-2026 through the program "Agriculture and Rural Development - ADER 2026" finances the project "Research on the institutional capacity of the public-private partnership to actively participate in the performance of agriculture, in terms of yield, economic, social and environmental", contract no. ADER 21.1.1/2023. Through the project, it is desired to intensify public-private partnerships in agriculture in order to increase the performance of farmers.