523
County Council. The policy consisted of granting concessions to private investors
for large pieces of land by public tenders (Niculescu et  al. 2015b). The County
Council is accused of not taking into consideration the local specificity of Pardina
and of giving away the land too easily, the farmers’ only obligation being to practice
only agriculture on that land. These changes attracted many foreign (French,
English, and Italian) investors, who took over the farming of more than two thirds
of the polder. Additionally, several shepherds who came to Pardina from Transylvania
during the communist regime progressively took up the southern part of the polder.
Fig. 17.3 Various Danube Delta improvements prior to 1994. Over time, human intervention has
manifested itself in more than a quarter of the entire Danube surface
Table 17.1 Agricultural developments and their surface areas
Locality
Agricultural development
Surfaces/ha
1 Ceatalchioi
Sireasa
5480
2 ChiliaVeche
Pardina
13,766
Tataru
2061
Total
15,827
3 Mahmudia
Carasuhat
2863
4 Murighiol
Dunavat-Murighiol
2538
5 Pardina
13,266
Total area of agricultural developments
39,974
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