TIRANA, July 1 /ATA/ Dairy farming as one of the important sectors of economy in the country was the highlight of the meeting held at the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development between FAO, UNDP, partners from “Bles Dairy,” the Dutch Embassy, farmers and milk processors.
The meeting focused on the research study on the current situation of fresh milk in the area of Kavaja, Lushnja and Fier.
The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Frida Krifca, in her speech, described the platform as a good opportunity to improve the competitiveness of the sector in terms of product quality and employment.
“Animal farming is one of the sectors that is undergoing significant changes in the structure of the family livestock farm, the number of heads, the dynamics of milk production and its marketing,” she said.
Meanwhile, the minister added, there is also a sustained increase in milk processing establishments and its by-products.
“So animal farming is no longer an activity of shareholder farmers which generates daily income from the sale of milk in the city, but the strategic enterprise of the farm which needs investments, specialists of the process of production as well as a consolidated value chain of this product,” said Krifca.
The minister said that the objective of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development is to stimulate economies of scale in livestock farms and increase milk production in the country, ensuring a better integration of the informal milk production market in the formal one.
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