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Farmers exhibit their produce at the Korça apple festival, but every year the market remains a problem

Farmers exhibit their produce at the Korça apple festival, but every year the market remains a problem

Korça apples are one of the most popular products of this south-eastern Albanian region and every fall the Apple Festival is organized in the village of Dvoran. After a tiring work and cultivating and harvesting, the farmers exhibit the different apple varieties with the aim of promoting them as well as increasing the market and […]
Grape growers report good production but falling sale prices, Myzeqe farmers now tend to focus on olives

Grape growers report good production but falling sale prices, Myzeqe farmers now tend to focus on olives

Grape growers in the lowland areas of Myzeqe in southwest Albania are taking stock of the season’s work, saying that although production has been satisfactory, the unexplained drop in prices has cut their incomes. The Allkaj administrative unit is one of the areas with the largest ​​vineyards in the district of Lushnja, but the growers […]
Farmers in Divjaka gave up wheat to plant sunflowers, but the market continues to shrink

Farmers in Divjaka gave up wheat to plant sunflowers, but the market continues to shrink

Thanas Veliu, the farmer from Grabjani in Divjaka in southwestern Albania, planted wheat and sunflowers on his 12 ha of land. He says that he cannot provide for his family with wheat as he sold it at a discount that does not even cover the production costs. “The costs of wheat are many times higher […]
Sudden hailstorm severely damages farmers produce in Kolonja, in southeastern Albania

Sudden hailstorm severely damages farmers produce in Kolonja, in southeastern Albania

Farmers in several villages of Kolonja were seriously damaged yesterday as a result of the sudden hailstorm. Their crops have been massively affected both in vegetables and in orchards and viticulture. The most affected villages were Rehova, Taçi, Starja, Gjonçi, etc., where hundreds of hectares of fruits and vegetables and thousands of apple and plum […]
Amid mass production of watermelon, farmers in Divjaka complain that the purchase price is half what was expected

Amid mass production of watermelon, farmers in Divjaka complain that the purchase price is half what was expected

In the fields of Divjaka in the south-west of Albania, it is the period of collecting summer agricultural products. Hundreds of hectares of land are planted with watermelons that are already on the market, but for farmers this year is not so good because according to them the selling price of watermelons in this period […]