TIRANA, Nov 5 /ATA/ The government has increased twice as much the fund to support farmers in 2022.
Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Frida Krifca, said that “3.2 billion ALL is the fund in the 2022 budget earmarked for the support scheme in agriculture, which is the largest financial support for farmers.”
During the discussion in principle of the bill on 2022 budget at Parliamentary Committee for Manufacturing Activity, Trade and Environment, Krifca said that the National Support Scheme in Agriculture will finance milk producers, medicinal and aromatic plants processing operators, organic farms, construction and expansion of greenhouses, aquaculture pickup points, technological innovations. ”.
“Beneficiaries of these support schemes will be 40-50 thousand farmers,” said the minister.
Krifca also stressed that the budget increases for the Oil Scheme in Agriculture, which goes to 1.04 billion ALL, or 200 million ALL more than last year, increasing the number of beneficiaries to 30 thousand farmers from 19 thousand beneficiary farmers in 2021.
IPARD is another Program initiated by the government in cooperation with the EU, which addresses financial support for farmers next year.
“Through a fund of 2.6 billion ALL, the IPARD program will support 200 agro-processing entities. Projects for digitalized agriculture worth 103 million ALL will help set up farm registers and will facilitate the application of farmers for support from various programs,” said Krifca.
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