Abstract
Assessing Farm’s Performance by Farm Typology in Albania
Highlights
Organisational and administrative aspects of farming in Albania: The country is divided into 12 counties, which consist of 36 districts composed of 65 municipalities and 309 communes; what seems a very expensive and not very dynamic administration structure.Subject of special emphasis of this study are the districts of: Berat; consists of two municipalities and 10 communes over 122 villages with a population of 141,944 inhabitants on 179,793 ha surface In the following, main emphasis is put on Berat region, according to the OECD classification, it is part of the intermediate region, which stands for 45.8% of territory and 41.2% of the whole population in Albania
Statistics show that on national level, agriculture employs over 50% of working-age and contributes to about 17.6% in GDP, but efficiency of agriculture production is very low (efficiency of agricultural sector is about 14 times lower compared to services sector or about 4 times lower compared to industry sector (INSTAT, 2012)
Calculating the poverty level based on total household income (THI) shows that family members are living over complete poverty on all types of farms
Summary
Organisational and administrative aspects of farming in Albania: The country is divided into 12 counties, which consist of 36 districts composed of 65 municipalities and 309 communes; what seems a very expensive and not very dynamic administration structure. The rural and urban infrastructure suffers from not being connected to national main roads, and having almost no sub- road system These lead to the fact that Berati is not one of the regions economically performing above country’s average and poverty is significantly higher. A difference as to other regions is that income from pensions is the main source of non-agriculture activity for the majority of farms of all groups. Compared to the region in the past, the contribution of sheep and goats to the overall milk production is significantly higher, which might be seen as a result of the overage population? Compared to the region in the past, all groups of farms in Berat have a much higher rate of self-re-financing agriculture by agricultural income sources of households/families; again, it may be a result of the higher average age of the population. Not surprisingly the poverty level is high and makes people more dependent on farm income
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