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Aid for villages and farmers/ Berisha: Within the first year, we will increase subsidies by 5 times

2025-04-16 18:29:00, Politikë CNA

Aid for villages and farmers/ Berisha: Within the first year, we will increase

The leader of the Democratic Party, Sali Berisha, held a conversation this Wednesday with the residents of the administrative unit of unit 15 in Tirana. During this meeting, Berisha emphasized the governance program of 'DP-Greater Albania'.

In his speech, Berisha focused on the importance and role of establishing and operating a subsidy system for livestock and seedlings.

Berisha stated that in the first year of government, the DP will increase subsidies for farmers by 5 times.

Berisha said that there is no better place to devote oneself to agriculture than the country's villages.

"We established a subsidy system and you are witnesses that olives, production, livestock, cows, and so on were subsidized. All of these were completely removed. It is unimaginable that wherever I go, villagers tell me that not a single kilometer of road has been paved in our area.

Subsidies. Every state, absolutely every state subsidizes farmers, gives them cash for what they sow, what they harvest, for the livestock they raise, for the seedlings they plant.

And no country loses from this. No. They return to production, to welfare, they return to families, to society.

This subsidy only opened the borders for Serbia with the 'Open Balkans' because it said the truck waits so much, nonsense, that is. And the goods of Sumadija, the products of Banat, which have at least 8 times more subsidies than Albania, flood into Albania.

Of course, the Albanian farmer cannot afford to have a farmer who is subsidized 8 times more, whoever he is. He ends up paying a much higher price.

He did the other thing too. He imposed an asymmetric VAT on collectors so that they would buy imported products instead of domestic ones.

And now, these were causing thousands of quintals and tons of domestic goods to rot and farmers to stop planting, to flee, to go bankrupt.

With thousands of farms, thousands of greenhouses. Agricultural production has declined.

What are we going to do?

This is our first year here, and I promise you that we will raise the subsidy for you to the level of Macedonia, Kosovo, Montenegro, and Serbia, a level that is 5 times greater than it is today.

We will subsidize every seedling you plant. We will subsidize every cow, sheep, or goat. We will subsidize every unit of production you get from your land.

The tax for collectors ends, it will be symmetrical on both sales and purchases, which means you will get back the VAT on sales and wholesalers will not.

You will take it because it is yours. So this is a completely different system. For us, there is no developed Albania without a developed village.

There is no developed Albania with abandoned villages. There is no more fertile land than the land of Albania, it is among the best that exists. Others turn desert into fertile land. These turn fertile land into desert. This is the truth", said Berisha. /CNA