TIRANA, November 15 /ATA/ Prime Minister Edi Rama stated today that, “The 7.1 billion Lekë budget for agriculture is part of the rural development program, which also includes direct support for farmers. Then, there are 3.2 billion Lekë direct support for 40-50 thousand farmers who are included in the registers “.
In his speech in the Assembly during the presentation of the 2022 budget, PM Rama said that, “We cannot continue to finance informality; we cannot continue to throw money if some of those living with this sector are not formalized and registered. Although they have no consequences in the administrative sense, they lose any access to funds, support schemes and schemes funded by the EU.”
The prime minister said that, “There are some stubborn figures for agriculture that are not opinions, but are figures extracted from state books. Today, we have in terms of 9 months, 323% more exports than in the 9 months of 2013. With the budget of 2022, 12.7 billion Lekë go for support”.
For the support of startups in agriculture, PM Rama continued, there are 4 million. “While this time we have a considerable amount for food safety, which is 2.3 billion Lekë because we have a lot of gap to fill in this regard,” said PM Rama.
PM Rama said that, “We continue to improve the irrigation infrastructure. Today, in Albania we cultivate twice as much the land if compared with 2013. Secondly, in 2013 we inherited a system where collection and agro-processing points were counted with fingers today there are 250 collection points throughout the country with storage, cooling, refrigeration capacities, which we will continue to add and finance it, as the need continues to be present ”./k.s/j.p/p.s./
