Shkodra free zone

Therefore, Shkodra will be able to satisfy the city demands
not only, as a developed touristic centre but, as we
mentioned above,
also as a zone of commercial transit for other countries.
In reality foreign investors from USA, Australia, France,
Thailand, following the above mentioned visions, have presented
their projects for the exploitation, as raw material, of the production
of
the enormous area of fertile land of Shkodra region within which
it is witnessed the successful
cultivation of 5000 hectares of wheat,
4000 hectares
of maize, 3500 hectares of tobacco, 1000 hectares of
vineyards, 2000 hectares of vegetable glass-houses, 1200 hectares
of
rice, 300 - 400 hectares of onions. There are 54 410 hectares of
forests growing healthily (300 hectares of chestnut trees alone) and
there is a high potential of livestock-raising, bee-keeping, silk-worm
raising, fish-farming, olive and sunflower growing, etc.
- chocolate factories,
- 8 milk processing factories (4 of average capacity and 4 of
small
capacity)
- 4 alcoholic drink factories,
- 2 water distilling factories,
- 2 canneries (for fruits and vegetables),
- 4 tobacco factories,
- 2 sauce factories (average capacity),
- 1 maize processing combine,
- 1 leather processing factory,
- I classic-shoe factory,
- 1 sports-shoe factory,
- 1 factory to process the complex products of the proteinic
“mine” of Shkodra’s lake (the largest one in the Balkans).
- 1 small
capacity combine to process the aged timbers of our
forests.
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