Иновационни процедури на национални схеми за албански фермери
Innovative Procedures on National Schemes for Albanian Farmers

Author(s): Pjerin Shoshi, Etleva Dashi
Subject(s): Politics, Economy, National Economy, Agriculture, Economic policy
Published by: Университет за национално и световно стопанство (УНСС)
Keywords: ARDA; National Support Scheme for the Agricultural Sector and Rural Development; on-line application; COVID; importance of new application procedure
Summary/Abstract: COVID-19 situation affected all countries in the world and Albania as well. Under this optic it was an emergency to find new ways on supporting farmers with their applications on national schemes. The paper is based on measuring the effects of aid that the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has provided to farmers, through its innovative procedures for the national schemes. So through face-to-face questionnaires we identified how the online application procedure affected Albanian farmers from public support during the quarantine period from March 2020 till January 2021. Subsidies are intended to increase farmers' incomes, but also to increase competitiveness. The agricultural sector is supported through subsidies because without this support farmers cannot compete with the prices of imported products3. We observed that new procedures permitted the farmers to apply normally into the National Support Scheme, although movement restrictions were placed by the government during the studied period.

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