Integrated Cross-Sectorial Plan of Tirana-Durres Area

• The expansion of the network of
partnerships and collaborative alliances in
services and branded products, based on
innovation and knowledge.
• The development of human capacities in
local public institutions through incubators,
vocational schools and specific courses
directed at industrial processes of products,
logistics and global sales network.
• The establishment of platforms and support
structures to supply the chain with regional
quality raw products that contribute to the
creation of authentic agricultural brands.
Additional opportunities for the agroindustry
sector will be carried out by:
• Establishing storage structures, collection,
processing and trading centres at regional
and local level. The Regional Development
Agency, the municipalities of the region and
the line ministry should define the hierarchy
and priority areas to build these structures
that will be created by private entrepreneurs.
• Creating supportive conditions to diversify
the range of products, which are developed
through the promotion of cooperation
schemes among new entrepreneurs in urban
areas and local farmers. These activities,
aimed at promoting cooperation between
urban and rural centres, are suggested to be
developed in peri-urban areas.
• Establishing laboratory and certification
structures to increase product standards will
enable product access at an international
level. The establishment of municipal
structures for the management and
monitoring of these standards will create the
conditions to establish a full chain in regional
agro-industry products.
• Agro-incubators are very much needed
to help young entrepreneurs to establish
not only the survival conditions in the early
years, but also the networking opportunities
in the global network. Agro-incubators
should create the conditions to promote
free entrepreneurship with a focus on “Bio”
agriculture, by supporting stakeholders
with the necessary knowledge and soft loan
schemes.
The plan proposes to establish 2
agro-incubators in Kamza and Shijak
municipalities.
Achieving the quality of ‘bio’ products in the
regional food chain should be supported by:
• Prohibiting discharges of untreated urban
waters into rivers (Erzen and Ishem) and
irrigation channels. The municipalities of
the region should complete the construction
of the respective infrastructure for urbanrural
centres and create the conditions,
norms and standards for the construction of
managed septic tanks, for grouped or isolated
dwellings far from urban areas. (Local
monitoring structures should develop cyclical
system controls to analyze the quality of the
regional environment, the latter being one of
the key factors affecting product certification
oriented toward exports).
• Developing integrated and protected
irrigation and drainage systems starting
from: the reservoir pumping system, cleaning
of remaining active reservoirs, cleaning
of discharge outlets, irrigation / drainage
channels and their centralized control
systems, construction of controlled and
certified water wells.
• Developing networks and hubs in regional
municipalities for the recycling and
composting of natural waste as well as their
reuse for a sustainable circular economy. The
strategic poles to develop these structures
are:
Shijak-Sukth; Qerret-Hamallaj;
Ndroq-Peze;
Vore-Berxulle-Bubq;
Farke-Petrele-Mullet-Arbane;
Valias-Nikel.
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