TIRANA, February 10 /ATA/-The government of Albania is providing subsidies to farmers to expand their farms with cattle.
The government support in 2020 provides direct financial support to farmers providing subsidies according to the number of cattle.
According to the decision recently adopted by the government, support measures and funding from the Agriculture and Rural Development Program Fund are for the basic matriculated herd (breeding animals), for farms with not less than 70 (seventy) sheep heads and / or goats, in the amount of 1 200 (one thousand two hundred) leke / head, but not more than 360 000 (three hundred and sixty thousand) leke per subject, and for farms with not less than 5 (five) head of cattle, in a value of 10 000 (ten thousand) leks / head, but not more than 500 000 (five hundred thousand) leks per subject.
The government has paid special attention and pursued policies of support for livestock during the recent years.
During last year, the farmers got subsidies for every bill of milk they sold to the collectors.
In 2019, the farmers benefited a total of 40 million lekë through the milk scheme of 10 lekë per litre. This current year the scheme of support for the farmers will target increase of heads of cattle. The threshold will be 5 cows and more. /j.p/p.s./
