4 hours agoThe 50-year job of the Hoti family in agriculture this year is at risk of exhumation because of the coronary
Periskopi(6 years ago)
(6 years ago)For over 50 years now, the Hoti family cultivates different agricultural cultures. For these five decades, this family from the Great Krusha of Rahovez has never had greater difficulty of surviving as farmers. Muharrem Hoti, along with his family, has more than 20 acres [...]
For over 50 years now, the Hoti family cultivates different agricultural cultures. For these five decades, this family from the Great Krusha of Rahovez has never had greater difficulty of surviving as farmers.
Muharrem Hoti, along with his family, has more than 20 acres [20 ha] of land that they have worked this spring. By the time some of the crops began to go on sale, the country and not alone, the pandemic situation has blocked.
The 55-year-old tells about Kosova Preiss, that they are in bad shape and that they will hardly survive.
We are badly damaged because salads that have had the time to sell are not selling. The others haven't come out for sale. Now preparing the earth, we're having a hard-working problem. If we can't sell production, we're very bad”, he points out.
Hoti had so far worked all these lows of the earth, worked them out with five other farmers, but because of the bad situation now, the land is being worked by him, the co-owner of these lands Imer Duraku and only one worker.
This situation is making it difficult for him to repay a debt to the bank.
” We had to go into loans, the problem is now that we have to start paying the loan, if the money we've been working on isn't sold, it's gonna be really hard for us to live... I've been working for 50 years, my father and my father's always farming, but this year's hard to get to the bottom. Much expense, small income. Until today, the state has not helped, very little”, he adds.
Among other things, he is very disappointed with the treatment he has received from the Ministry of Agriculture so far.
” Once I was there in Pristina at the office, where agriculture is. A building, seven stories... even there's pity for us, not counting us for people, not farmers, but for people not to go there, he points out.
Considering this situation, Hoti talks about the huge losses he will experience, says there was no way he could pay the workers.
He also has requests for the Government of Kosovo.
” From the government to help us with oil, garbage, to this day it hasn't helped any state. It would be nice to have the employees paid us for a month, or two. We don't have the chance, the poor ones won't be able to get paid”, he says.
Meanwhile, to help those injured by Pandemia Covid-19, the Kosovo government has approved a fiscal emergency package worth 170.6m euros. Under this package, the increase in the budget for grants and subsidies in the Ministry of Agriculture for 5m euros is envisioned.
