Entrepreneurship in the Rural Environment

Abstract

The development of business in Romania was described in the article. Taking into account the statistics shown that in Romania, about 9.6 million people live in rural areas, rural entrepreneurship can be a separate kind of entrepreneurship. The author has presented the arguments that affect on entrepreneurship development in rural areas. The positive and negative aspects related to sustainable rural development was given. National programs for rural development aimed at increasing the competitiveness of farming and forestry, the support of the European community for the establishment of agricultural and non-agricultural activities in rural areas, oriented toward economic development and increasing the quality of life in rural areas were descripted. The success or failure of a strategy for encouraging entrepreneurship in rural areas depends largely on new created jobs, on the growth of household income in rural areas, the number of enterprises set up and, not ultimately, differences in living standards between rural and urban population were grounded in the research. Keywords: entrepreneurship, rural, sustainable development, competitiveness, enterprises.