TIRANA, May 4/ATA/-About 37.4% of Albania’s population capable of work is employed in the agriculture sector.
According to the Institute of Statistics (INSTAT), by the end of 2018 the agriculture sector had the highest percentage of the people employed, 37.4% of the total number of the people employed.
The government policy of support focusing on certification of the arable land, fiscal incentives and programmes of financial support from the state budget and the EU, have encouraged the farmer to work and invest in his land.
While the new undertaking in the field have notably increased the number of employees, the agriculture output and the incomes to the rural areas.
Agriculture yields 20% of the country’s GDP.
The export of the agriculture products amount to 300 thousand tons of fruits and vegetables put mainly on the markets of the EU countries.
As the young people are oriented to attend agriculture vocational schools, the labour force in the sector has got increase year by year. /e.xh/ /a.g/p.s./
