Integrated Cross-Sectorial Plan of Tirana-Durres Area

Axes of rural-urban regional development
Katund i Ri - Sukth - Sukth i ri - Shijak - Xhafzotaj - Rrashbull
Ndroq - Peze - Preze - Vaqarr - Arbane
Vore - Maminas - Berxulle - Preze - Bubq - Domje - Laknas
Kamez - Nikel - Fushe Kruje
Maminas - Manez - Hamallaj
Fushe Preze - Berxulle - Bubq - Thumane
Petrele - Vishaj - Mullet - Fikas - Ibe - Priske e madhe
Table 4.18 Axes of rural-urban regional development
RP3.1- Support activities for agricultural
economic development
• Establishing regional information and
training offices on market needs for farmers.
The line ministry, the Regional Development
Agency, and the municipalities of the region
should define the hierarchy of development
of information centres as well as the regional
operational and monitoring structures.
The aim is to improve the information and
specialized employment conditions for the
creation of a more efficient economy for farm
households.
• Promoting free entrepreunership in the
region should be strengthened through
supportive policies for new businesses,
focusing on urban-rural interaction, promoting
innovation in agriculture, the food chain, agroindustry
and agro-tourism.
• Stimulating soft loans should be directed
towards farmers who build cooperations,
creating the conditions to unify the range of
products. Lending schemes should take into
account the support of farmers who become
part of the project to consolidate agricultural
land by helping to develop economies of scale.
• Facilitated crediting to agricultural
entrepreneurship, prioritizing certain groups,
such as girls, women and young people, who
should become part of these schemes by
providing the conditions to promote the urbanrural
agricultural economy on farms under
3 ha. The Regional Development Agency and
other regional or local government institutions
should participate in the creation of financial
schemes in support of soft loans, serving as
the guarantor of the lending value, in order to
strengthen and enhance the wellfare of these
clusters.
• Public-private partnership schemes should
serve as an added value in cases where
LGUs can become support partners thanks
to the provision of low-cost territorial assets,
generating economic benefits to be used in
community services.
Support schemes for other sectors such
as aquaculture and apiculture may be an
additional aid that serves as a catalyst
for success in supporting other schemes,
contributing to the quality of interaction
between agricultural products.
• Developing fiscal and legal instruments for
the creation of cooperatives. Encouraging
cooperation between scientific research
institutions, different farms and donors
should be developed to operate on platforms
and schemes with clear legal and fiscal
frameworks.
Harmonization of investments for the creation
of cooperatives should be closely linked with
the creation of an appropriate environment
for regionalization of production, land
consolidation and the development of the
necessary regional knowledge.
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