Integrated Cross-Sectorial Plan of Tirana-Durres Area

• Creating the network and chain of food
products distribution infrastructure.
The municipalities should promote the
development of collection, processing,
packaging, storage and distribution points of
food products in the urban centres’ markets,
as neuralgic points for connecting the
consumer to the network and the food chain
infrastructure.
• Establishing the recycling infrastructure.
The municipalities of the region should
establish a network of composting, recycling
and reusing natural waste to promote the
creation of a closed-cycle rural economy at
local and regional level.
• Regenerating the irrigation infrastructure
of agricultural land. The metropolitan region
is equipped with many water resources
in support of agriculture, such as rivers,
reservoirs, irrigation channels and water
management systems.
The regional municipalities need to develop
joint projects to implement integrated
irrigation systems. These systems should be
protected with buffer zones and monitored for
above and underground pollution, as well as
for urban constructions in their vicinity.
RP3.2- Product regionalization
The regionalization of agricultural production
will serve as an opportunity to increase the
yield of local production. This instrument will
contribute to the consolidation of agricultural
land and to the specialization of operational
and production structures of the local
agricultural product. The line ministry should
guide capital investments towards those
municipalities and local activities that have a
development priority, towards the construction
of the regional agricultural product network,
having as the ultimate goal:
• increasing the surface area of arable land in
parcels larger than 5-7 ha;
• facilitating and promoting the innovation
processes in the agricultural sector;
• protecting the agricultural land in marginalnatural
areas (agro-farming areas);
• increasing and expanding agricultural farms
specialized in specific regional products;
• a better organization of work and
employment in the agricultural sector support
structures;
• creating connective/intermediary links
among farmers, producers and other local
operators (connection to the food chain).
For the purposes of regionalizing production,
as an opportunity contributing to the increase
of the regional welfare level, the municipalities
and line ministries are suggested to promote:
• fiscal support for predetermined agricultural
inputs prices as a priority for regional
agriculture;
• support through soft loan schemes for
agricultural mechanics;
• policies / strategies for the protection and
management of agricultural land, as well as
the establishment of operational schemes for
the unification of regional products based on
priority agricultural sectors and areas of each
municipality;
• legal and fiscal incentives for the cultivation
of non-cultivated agricultural land in marginal
areas;
• differentiated taxation to encourage the
use of agricultural land with a surface area
of 5-7 ha, in unifying schemes of agricultural
varieties that support each other;
• structural policies that contribute to the
consolidation and management of agricultural
farms interacting with global market networks.
Financial support should have a differentiated
focus on the groups of producers, processors
and production distributors.
Risk management and aid fund in agriculture
Risk management is the process of identifying,
evaluating, controlling and monitoring the
potentially harmful natural events or situations
that negatively impact in achieving the
objectives in agriculture.
Given that agricultural products are delicate
and highly sensitive to weather conditions,
temperature, humidity, drought and other
natural disasters, their insurance at the
respective institutes is highly indispensable.
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