OAK gives state some recommendations for agriculture

So it was said at the table organised by the Kosovo Afarism Oda with the subject “Business and rural development-sphides of Kosovo”, where various businessmen from Kosovo were present.

University of Pristina professor Bajram Berisha has demanded that food planting culture be changed in Kosovo with the aim of creating great jobs.

Berisha also said that special agricultural areas should be established to reach the closure of a trap for a certain agricultural production.

A specific example has been mentioned by Rahovez, where grapes are produced and wine products are produced.

He also said that there should be a rule for subsidy to be made for collected fruits, not for surfaces.

And this is the question of what to cultivate and this is the question of both Oda and our own, to speak up, to change that logic, to change the logic and cultivation of cultures that we've told the extensive culture and we have to try to plant cultures that need commitment and engagement is equal to increased workers... what will have to happen in the near future is the creation of regions or specialised agricultural areas that never occurred, and the strategic sector where it would achieve organization to close the cycle from the seed to the final product. ... so I think we're going to have to make a rule that the subsidy will be made for fruits collected and not for surfaces, because it's a clear theory that subsidies are equal to losing production capacity” he said.

Meanwhile, among other things, he said that tobacco production has not yet been achieved in Kosovo to create production of a traditional culture like tobacco production has once been.

Berisha has also raised concerns about the prices of products in the country for which he has demanded that voices be raised for a convenient price.

Company owner “AAS Partners”, Ajvazi Conception stopped paying flat rate and VAT.

“Fermer says no statements but states business on behalf of the farmer respectively pays business tax on behalf of the farmer, and really in the tax jar this tax is called a resource tax, businesses are charged that every month at the cost of farmers, have bought them products and made payments should be marked by the moment of billing and the moment of payment ... Businesses in Kosovo are only being damaged because they are not informed, and farmers are not even informed by businesses, that is, the farmer's obligation, that you have 3 percent that you don't pay yourself back, pay business, but business owes the annual certificate to the farmer, and at the same time the business and credites that the farmer is not up to, and actually lowers the cost of production, whatever further processing, he said.

Part of this paper was the owner of the company “The Commerc”, Hyzri Gashi, who said the risk for investment can be eliminated when the fine producer offers the product and connect it to the consumer.

He also said that a financial institution should be established in Kosovo.

The small producers offer the product and connect it to the consumer, what happens here is eliminated from the businessman doesn't mean we're against the dealers that we're in a commercial form, but it's eliminated an unnecessary profit of someone who didn't do anything except playing the role of a mediator... Kosovo needs a financial institution that actually links real non-virtual communication and now companies that want to invest”, he said.

Meanwhile, Kosovo's Oda of Afarism board chairman Skender Krasnqi said that some demands for which the country's institutions could be addressed have been issued from this meeting.

To create regions for certain agricultural products in order to create larger amounts, larger surfaces and traders have a place to buy certain products... investment in closing the production cycle in that region for those products to be invested in factories so that that the cycle can be finalised where it is... Subventions should be made in quantity and not in hectare, under four state to guarantee the price of a product that says in terms of this price doesn't fall, and the state guarantees that price instead of subsidy, under five states to guarantee the farmer or farmer to pay 3 percent of the tax and not continue to impose business”, he said.

Otherwise, Kosovo's Afarism Oda has been formed this year, but so far are participating around 200 Kosovo businesses.