Integrated Cross-Sectorial Plan of Tirana-Durres Area

The financial support of local administrative
units for rural areas and the development
of urban-rural cooperative potentials are
required to promote a variety of rural-based
activities.
Agricultural farms are the main actors in
promoting economic activities in the rural
areas. They are operational structures that
temporarily move due to the change in the
market demands.
Handling their dimensions and locations
should allow farmers to be able to change
production activities according to their needs.
Therefore, rural development policies of the
LGUs should be flexible and create conditions
for the farms and farmers to adapt to the
needs of change, respond to the market
demands, and integrate into the cycle of the
added value of the global food chain.
Employment in rural areas is no longer
an intensive work on agricultural lands. It
includes a variety of actors that are part of
the same cycle, but which operate in different
territorial areas and poles, such as:
Peripheral (peri-urban) areas should be
used for specialized activities, rural-urban
agri-tourism or urban agricultural services,
such as markets or services that can assist
in linking urban areas to rural areas. The
development of these various activities with a
focus on cooperation will bring improvements
and benefits to the lifestyle in both urban and
rural areas.
and management of agricultural land,
creation and development of agricultural land
board and fund, public-private partnership,
cooperatives, development of food chain
innovation and regionalization of product
production.
In rural centres that lie in the western
lowland areas, where agricultural activity
is more developed, municipalities are
encouraged to promote:
• joining small farms to better cope with
competition and improve the quality of
agricultural products;
• specializing small agricultural farms in
‘bio’ products to preserve the varieties of the
area’s tradition;
• improving modern centralized irrigation
and drainage systems, developing drainage
systems to protect agricultural lands and the
community from unforeseen natural disasters
(mainly floods).
The plan aims to prioritize the use of the
territory based on the functions illustrated in
the following table:
These spaces, territorial areas, should
be supported by the municipalities with
differentiated, fiscal or legal development
policies for uses that focus on creating
conditions for public-private partnerships.
The aim is to develop the aforementioned
services, based on new innovative
enterprises.
Rural areas should be developed based on a
clear vision of interaction in the agricultural
industry network to create a successful
climate between all stakeholders. It is
suggested to use and interconnect such
development instruments as: consolidation
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