TIRANA, Sept 19 /ATA/ The government continues to expand financial support instruments in agriculture with the aim of cutting production costs and increasing investments.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development plans to support farmers through grants from the IPARD program.
According to data from MoAFRD, in these 9 years (2008-2017), agriculture has been able to absorb, through various development projects, 10.5 million euros, made available under the IPA program.
During 2021, as part of the IPARD program 166 investment contracts have been awarded to farmers and businesses in sectors of agro-processing, farm diversification, livestock, meat, viticulture, etc.
While this year the IPARD II program has disbursed 27 million euros worth of financing for enterprises in the rural sector.
The IPARD program joins the Support Scheme that this year consists of the largest fund that Albanian agriculture has received since 1990. The fund, already increased to 4.9 billion ALL from 3.2 billion ALL, reduces the burden of costs in agriculture.
Meanwhile, the implementation of the IPARDIII and IPA3 is expected to start soon. /j.p/sm/
