12 minutes agoKosovo doesn't have enough wheat this year
Periskopi(7 years ago)
(7 years ago)Over 50,000 hectares of grain have been collected in Kosovo this year. The rules of a hectare are about 4 thousand pounds [4,000,000 kg] in order to cover some 200 thousand tons. With these productivity, Kosovo has again failed to meet wheat needs. Isuf Cikaqi, director of the Department for Agriculture Policy in [...]
Isuf Cikaqi, director of the Department for Agriculture Policy at the Ministry of Agriculture, told Online Economy that the per capita wheat demand is about 200 kilos, or 400 thousand tons of wheat.
“According to a published faun report, headpiece demand in Kosovo is 205kg, if we calculate with the total number of residents counting 2 million people in the Republic of Kosovo, then it drops about 400 thousand to 410 thousand tons of wheat must have Kosovo for consumption or for meeting the needs”, he says.
According to Chicago, it is necessary to import agricultural products, because production needs in the country are not met. Grure Kosovo takes from countries in the region, but also from Austria and Hungary.
“The share that Kosovo produces of wheat and other cultures consumed by local production and where the normal needs are not met then necessary to secure that agricultural product from import”.
The “does not come only from Serbia, comes from different countries in the region as well from Austria and Hungary. Import from Serbia has been done by the time the tax is imposed, and in terms of safety in terms of quality, the Food and Veterinary Agency” is responsible.
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Chicago says the Ministry of Agriculture has two programmes in support of farmers, reports EO.
“Suma supporting subsidies this year has been 150 per hectare, for farmers who have cultivated cereals in general and over 6 million who have only gone to wheat, as it is the culture that is cultivated with the largest surface in the Republic of Kosovo”.
According to him, the factor driving farmers to buy new cars is the best quality of products.
Our “The farmers in recent years have made progress in buying new machinery in many areas, one of the main factors is increasing product quality and try to get out of work by”.
In the Republic of Kosovo, there are many farmers who deal with crops of grain and wheat in particular, but many farmers are also changing in recent years, depending on their interest. Yet, the culture of wheat dominates. Farmers are those who cultivate wheat for their own need”, and Chicago is finished.
