Agricultural Land Market in the Republic of Moldova: Retrospective Factor-Analysis and Developmental Forecast

Along with forest areas, aquatic areas and/or located under different infrastructure components (residential spaces, those intended for industry, transport, etc.) agricultural land constitutes: the largest share of the local land fund (61.2%); the largest physical area – 2496.4 thousand hectares and (as will be shown later) – the greatest natural wealth of the country. Being revitalized at the beginning of the current century (summer of 2000), the above-mentioned market showed dynamic rates of development, having as the main evaluation indicators both the sale-purchase areas and their market prices, the integral sums of money, reserved for carrying out transactions respectively and (as the end result) the stable functioning of domestic agriculture as a whole.