TIRANA, March 26/ATA/ The farm land registers in the country have been digitized to the extent of 60%, according to data provided from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.
The Ministry of Agriculture said that side by side with the registration, there has been created the Land Information System for at least 448,541 ha, or 65.2% of the total farm land in the country.
The “Sustainable Land Management” program also aims at digitization.
During 2023, about 15,000 ha of agricultural land in the administrative units of Qukës of Elbasan region, Hekal of Fier region, Fajze of Kukës region, Helma of Tirana region, Blinisht and Zejmen of Lezha region have been digitized.
According to the report of the Ministry of Agriculture, at the end of the digitalization phase, there will be carried out the following: Inventory and classification of farm land according to its suitability; Collection of information on land use/cover for the year that the initial registration was carried out, as well as analyzing the dynamics of changes in land use based on plots; Agro-ecological study of the areas; Digitization of the farm land register for 4 administrative units; Creation of the WEB-GIS program for land data./r.e/p.s./
