ESTIMATING VITICULTURAL FAVORABILITY OF COTNARI VINEYARD AREA AND IDENTIFYING LIMITING FACTORS

For estimating the favorability of agricultural lands for vine in Cotnari vineyard area, we used 16 indicators provided in the Methodology of Soil Survey (Second part and third part) - 1986. To determine the average coefficient of evaluation, respectively the class of favorability for the vine in Cotnari Vineyard, we calculated the notes of evaluation for 10 administrative units from Cotnari Vineyard: Fl manzi, Frumu ica, Deleni, Harl u, Scobin i, Cepleni a, Cotnari, Cucuteni, Todire ti, Targu Frumos. For each administrative unit were selected the territorial units of soil (U.S.) within Cotnari Vineyard, from which we extracted only the ecological homogeneous territories (TEO's) that are planted with vine. Among the limiting factors identified in Cotnari Vineyard we mention the geomorphologic factor (slope, landslides), the pedological factor (gleying, stagnogleying,salinization/alkalization, texture, reaction, humus content, edaphic volume) and the hydrological factor (groundwater depth, excess moisture in surface, flooding by overflow).