Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Arian Jaupllari in a media interview said that, this year, the farmers have shown high interest in subsidies, especially in the scheme of tax-free oil and livestock.

According to him, 54,255 farmers applied for the oil scheme and over 9,000 for the basic matriculated, small herd and cattle.

Even for beekeeping, Jaupllari said, there has been high interest, with 4223 applications qualified.
Meanwhile, for medicinal plants, 953 applications have passed the first stage, followed by the support measure for greenhouses with 815 applications. Jaupllari also spoke about the importance and facilities introduced by the changes in CoM no. 283/2015.

For this year, the National Agricultural Support Scheme registered a total of 71,537 applications. The innovation for the oil scheme is benefit in monetary value instead of cards as it worked last year.
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Referring to this report, the Ministry of Education and Culture informs that about 15,597 applicants have applied to the national schemes. The largest number of applications continues to be in the livestock measure, with about 62.6% of the applications, followed by support for beekeeping with about 13% of the total applications.

For measure no. 6 “Organic farms”, measure no. 7 “Global Gap”, as well as measure no. 8 “Group of farmers and Agricultural Cooperatives”, the fund has been allocated to the extent of 100% of the total applications,”, according to MoARD.
In the budget report, the ministry also elaborates on the progress of the subsidy scheme related to tax-free oil.

“The oil subsidy scheme for mechanization in agriculture, the application process has been completed, with about 54,255 applications in total with a required fund of about 3,559 million ALL. With the current budget, we cover only 35.2% of the demand. In contrast to previous years, for the first time this year the payment will be credited to the farmer’s account, based on the criteria laid down in the CoM decision and the relevant guideline,” the ministry’s report says.
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