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Prime Minister Edi Rama, in a meeting in Berat with olive oil processing entrepreneurs, admitted that the road to joining the EU is already difficult and that Albania has 1001 challenges.
Rama announced that a group of inspectors from Brussels had come to leave a series of recommendations that needed to be fulfilled by Albania.
The Prime Minister emphasized that "we must resist this wave," as he spoke about increasing wages in agriculture, investments, tax relief and other support schemes for this sector, with the aim of achieving a production standard that is marketable for the large EU market.
"Over 70 representatives of factories in the field of olive oil processing have joined together in a single consortium, creating a unique model in selling this product with less cost and more profits; an initiative that will continue to have special support from the municipality and the government, with a new national program "Double the Enterprise", which will enable financing for all those who want to grow as a business with a concrete and convincing plan ," he said, among other things, in front of the farmers and ranchers of Berat.
Rama then moved on to issues of integration through the achievement of standards, and one of them was the field of Agriculture, which he added is a separate and major challenge. Rama admitted that many producers or categories do not achieve standards.
"Regarding European funding, we have the necessity to become part of the EU for 1001 reasons but we also have 1001 challenges and one of them is food safety. Which means that becoming part of the EU does not mean that you do not export there, but you cannot sell it here either. So I want all those who have invested in production and agricultural production to ensure standards. An inspection has come from the EU for the most delicate part of this field, which is that of livestock, dairy and meat products. There are 900 or so points in Albania that deal with this part of the field of agriculture and rural development. And they have left a series of recommendations, from what needs to be improved to increase standards and to the category that is far from standards and that has the potential to be improved as well as the category that should be removed from the list altogether ," he said.
But according to him, Albanians have the ability to adapt and he believed that they would overcome this "wave".
But he added that without achieving standards in food products and their quality, there could be no integration.
"I believe that Albanians have an extraordinary ability to adapt and I believe that we will resist this wave, but the work must start now because it is a shame for those who have invested so far to lose it with the idea that we must regulate ourselves. We cannot regulate ourselves if we do not grasp the EU standards, they are our good but also the consumer's and they must be achieved. We are a name that does not have a bad reputation, this is important, but on the other hand we must do our part and be smart in the way we produce olive oil, how we package and advertise the product so that it is even more sought after. I started with Demon and I am ending with Demon, the minister, we will build a point there as he says, an experience product, you will live with experience, come to Berat, Berat has a lot of experience but if you want to climb up, start from Berat", Rama concluded, also making jokes with the farmers and cultivators present at the meeting.
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