TIRANA, May 31 /ATA/- The Agency for Agricultural and Rural Development (ARDA) is proceeding with the process of reviewing the project applications that have been submitted in the second call of the IPARD II program.
ARDA states that in the second call there were 371 applications with a demand for funding of EUR 82.4 million.
Of these applications, for the first measure there are 148 applications with a total investment value of EUR 23.25 million, Measure 3: 93 applications with EUR 34.53 million and Measure 7: 130 applications with EUR 24.62 million.
ARDA announces that the COVID-19 situation has not stopped the institution’s experts from working on these processes.
So far, under the first call, investment contracts at an estimated amount of ALL 58 million have been concluded.
Beneficiaries of contracts are farmers, agribusiness entities that have applied for the three support measures of the IPARD –II program: “Investment in physical assets on agricultural farms;” “Investments in physical assets for processing and marketing of agricultural and fishing products:” “Farm Diversification and Business Development.”
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