Farmers are showing increased interest in the cultivation of exotic fruits, seizing this opportunity to start exporting exotic fruits that were once 100% imported products.

The experience that certain farmers have amassed while working and living for several years abroad is now being used back home and fruits like kiwi is now being successfully cultivated in Durrës, Fier, Vlorë, Vau Dejës, Pogradec, Librazhd and Belsh.

Meanwhile, farmers in Vlora and Tirana, passionate about avocados, have started cultivating this highly-sought tropical fruit recently by the Albanian consumer.

Agricultural experts say that planting avocado trees is attracting the interest of farmers, because the avocado plant requires hot and humid climates.

There are currently three experimental plots planted with avocados in the area of ​​Vlora, but also in Tirana.

They have decided to grow it for personal use, showing that this fruit can grow quite well in Albania, especially in protected areas.

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The Agency for Agricultural and Rural Development said that about 7,470 farmers applied in the support scheme for subsidizing new wheat plantings.

The scheme was applied for the first time. There were available 500 million Lekë to farmers divided into 30 thousand Lekë per hectare.

The Agency said that starting from next week it will verify the compatibility of the application with the area planted with wheat, while it will apply penalties to farmers who lied in the application.

The disbursement of funds to all beneficiary farmers will be carried out by the end of December 2022. While the winning farmers must submit to the Agency, the seed invoice for the purchase of wheat seed and that of chemical fertilizers.

“The support scheme for planting wheat will be introduced as a new permanent subsidy measure next year”, said the Agency./p.s./

“Cultivated lands in Gjorica of Bulqiza”, Rama wrote in a post on social media.

In Albania, the area of ​​cultivated land on a national scale has doubled.

During the presentation of the 2022 budget for agriculture, Rama said that, “From the 120 thousand ha that was in 2013, today we have 255 thousand ha of cultivated land in Albania. So, we have worked double the area of land of Albania because we have invested strongly rehabilitating the irrigation and drainage canals”.

Rama also said that agricultural exports have increased to 400 million USD.

“The increase in exports to 400 million USD is a meaningful example of the development of the agricultural sector”, said Rama, while adding that, “We target to go to 1 billion combined exports in agriculture and fishing”.

The support schemes given by the government are aimed at increasing the quality of agricultural products, seeds and seedlings, but also at increasing collection points, where the products produced by farmers have more opportunities to be sent to other international markets./r.e/p.s./