No account from the Ministry of Agriculture for 25m euros for subsidies

Visar Berisha from Index Kosova stressed that the first means with the 25m-euro programme should have impact and stability in agriculture.

Berisha stressed that to create stability and increase productivity in agriculture, subsidies must be divided on the basis of an analysis that the focus being on specific products.

He also expressed doubts about noncalculation and the misuse of subsidies, since he feels that farmers without working at all can obtain direct financial resources from the Ministry of Agriculture.

I can't agree to the fact that in Kosovo 25m euros were allocated for subsidies and not to have an account for that money. A third of that money goes for cereals, and a farmer who has five acres of cereal works at a loss. That never means anything. Not to mention cases that without sowing anything remove or with minimal productivity”, Berisha stressed.

Even Faton Nagavci, an expert in agriculture, stresses that subsidies for Kosovo farmers should be divided on the criteria. He proposed that subsidies be divided on the basis of productivity, although according to him, there are no official statistics for agricultural productivity.

The money must be used to develop agriculture. My proposal for subsidies is that with the support of the processors, with certain criteria it's normal to develop production. At the monitoring, it's a lot of trouble to find import and export bodies”, Nagavci stressed.

Regarding the lack of statistics in agricultural production, Shqipe Demas also spoke from the Ministry of Agriculture, which estimated there has never been accurate data on productivity in this sector.

While adding that they are not able to measure the effects of the subsidy programme for agricultural productivity by profit farmers.

Because we do not have accurate statistics in general, we never know how much is produced in Kosovo. You can't control whether the farmer uses it. So this can't have a direct impact, the impact has a rural development programme that grows the area”, Demas said.

While Enisa Serhati of the Riinvest Institute raised the issue of monitoring and accountability for 25m euros for farm subsidies, although it I appreciate that they are not as big as the state of Macedonia that allocated about 200m euros for the subsidies programme.