Integrated Cross-Sectorial Plan of Tirana-Durres Area

It is recommended to build regional insurance
and product management schemes through
the regional agricultural development fund.
This fund should also serve as an additional
aid in cases when regionalized production
becomes non-tradable, as the result of a
sudden shift in the global market demand.
State aid can be granted by using certain
instruments, such as:
• subsidies and grants allocated to help in
various agricultural processes or to overcome
difficult weather situations etc.;
• tax exemptions, tax deferrals, tax rate cuts
and reduction in the private social insurance
contribution;
• public participation in the capital as a coowner
with the farmer;
• soft loans from the banking system and
especially by the institutions of micro-finance,
which have a lower interest rate and can be
used by the farmer.
RP3.3- Innovation in agro-industry and
agro-environment
Creating a spirit of interaction between young
entrepreneurs in the agro-industry and agroenvironment
innovation sectors emerges as
a need to cope with the demand of the global
value network, as well as to make efficient the
regional food chain.
It is suggested that the municipalities and
line ministries promote the development
of innovation, research and technological
development centres with a focus on linking
projects to agricultural and business
undergraduate programs in order to build the
agricultural cluster habitat.
The development of these activities should be
supported by:
• The development and strengthening of
human skills for sectoral profiling, through
specific trainings by regional offices for the
purposes of developing new professions in
rural areas.
• The development of advisory, certification and
promotional structures for entrepreneurship
activities in rural areas, where regional
agro-incubators play an important role. It is
suggested to build the latter in cooperation
with the agricultural university, economic
university and business associations.
• The establishment of mobile laboratories
in infrastructureless areas to carry out
experiments on the elements of soil
composition, water, seed quality, plants,
flowers, biochemical analysis of animals,
etc., which will bring a good and lacking
coordination of the work among research
institutions, farmers and local government.
• The development of research and innovation
networks, based on inter-sectorial partnership
and global networking. It is suggested that
these developments be combined with the
agro-incubators development strategies in
cooperation with the Agricultural University
and regional SMEs.
• The education and training of farmers from
research institutions, supported by parttime
programs that help to build the spirit of
promoting successful local rural business
cases at the same time.
Training packages should create links between
the use of agricultural inputs, the efficiency
of the regional product, the logistics and
distribution system and the product demand
network in the global markets.
They should encourage the promotion and use
of innovative technologies in agriculture and
sustainable management of agricultural land,
forests, pastures and water.
The local government should create the
conditions for a rapid development of
infrastructure for innovation in the region,
promoting the efficiency of using new
technologies, promoting and informing interest
groups through NGOs and regional offices. It is
suggested to support platforms or other forms
of electronic innovation that help to manage
land and ways of cooperation for farmers to
promote high yields.
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