{"id":8682,"date":"2012-02-28T12:03:12","date_gmt":"2012-02-28T12:03:12","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2022-05-06T10:05:26","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T10:05:26","slug":"the-agro-industry-sector-in-albania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ndiqparate.al\/?p=8682&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"The Agro-industry sector in Albania"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Open Data Albania has conducted a research work on the agro-industry sector in the last years, based on data provided from the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Consumer Protection.<p><\/p>\n<p>Agro-industry is the industry that deals with agricultural products mass production.<\/p>\n<p>In the last years, the number of firms in the agro-industrial sector has changed as shown in the graph:<\/p>\n<p>  <script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/ajax.googleapis.com\/ajax\/static\/modules\/gviz\/1.0\/chart.js\">{<br \/>\n\t\"chartType\":\"ColumnChart\",<br \/>\n\t\"chartName\":\"Chart 1\",<br \/>\n\t\"dataSourceUrl\":\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheet\/tq?range=A3%3AC9&key=0Agylwmr5tEbVdGNod0h4LTlxVHJwTW9xZTJLYWNHcVE&gid=0&headers=-1\",<br \/>\n\t\"options\":{\"width\":600,\"height\":371,\"title\":\"Number of Firms and employees in the Agro-industry sector\",\"legend\":\"right\",\"isStacked\":false,<br \/>\n\t\"hAxis\": {\"title\": 'Year', \"titleTextStyle\": {\"color\": 'red'}},<br \/>\n\t \"vAxis\": {\"title\": 'Value', \"titleTextStyle\": {\"color\": 'red'}},<br \/>\n    \"labelPosition\":\"right\",\"is3D\":true,\"hasLabelsColumn\":true,},<br \/>\n    \"refreshInterval\":5,<br \/>\n    }<br \/>\n  <\/script><br><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Source: Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Consumer Protection<\/span><br style=\"font-style: italic;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Analysis and comments: ODA<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In 2009, there were 2,081 agro-industry firms, 36 firms less than the year before. This decrease in the number of firms is associated with a decrease in the number of employees by about 657 individuals. Most of the firms in the agro-industry sector are bakeries (1,102 businesses), followed by milk production firms (342), wheat production (171), oil production (108), wine (86), meat (65), etc. The lack of tobacco production firms can be noticed since 2007.<\/p>\n<p>Agro-industrial produtction in million ALL is shown in the graph below:<\/p>\n<p>  <script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/ajax.googleapis.com\/ajax\/static\/modules\/gviz\/1.0\/chart.js\">{<br \/>\n\t\"chartType\":\"LineChart\",<br \/>\n\t\"chartName\":\"Chart 1\",<br \/>\n\t\"dataSourceUrl\":\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheet\/tq?range=A21%3AB26&key=0Agylwmr5tEbVdGNod0h4LTlxVHJwTW9xZTJLYWNHcVE&gid=0&headers=-1\",<br \/>\n\t\"options\":{\"width\":600,\"height\":371,\"title\":\"Production in the agro-industry sector in million ALL\",\"legend\":\"right\",\"pointSize\":5,<br \/>\n\t\"hAxis\": {\"title\": 'Year', \"titleTextStyle\": {\"color\": 'red'}},<br \/>\n\t \"vAxis\": {\"title\": 'Value', \"titleTextStyle\": {\"color\": 'red'}},<br \/>\n    \"labelPosition\":\"right\",\"is3D\":true,\"hasLabelsColumn\":true,},<br \/>\n    \"refreshInterval\":5,<br \/>\n    }<br \/>\n  <\/script><br><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Source: Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Consumer Protection<\/span><br style=\"font-style: italic;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Analysis and comments: ODA<\/span><br style=\"font-style: italic;\"><br>Most of the investments in the agribusiness are made by the firms themselves, while the subsidies from the government budget have been null.<\/p>\n<p>The different sources of funds for investment in the agro-industry sector are shown below:<\/p>\n<p>  <script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/ajax.googleapis.com\/ajax\/static\/modules\/gviz\/1.0\/chart.js\">{<br \/>\n\t\"chartType\":\"ColumnChart\",<br \/>\n\t\"chartName\":\"Chart 1\",<br \/>\n\t\"dataSourceUrl\":\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheet\/tq?range=A33%3AE38&key=0Agylwmr5tEbVdGNod0h4LTlxVHJwTW9xZTJLYWNHcVE&gid=0&headers=-1\",<br \/>\n\t\"options\":{\"width\":600,\"height\":371,\"title\":\"Investment in the agro-industry sector by sources of funds\",\"legend\":\"right\",\"isStacked\":false,<br \/>\n\t\"hAxis\": {\"title\": 'Year', \"titleTextStyle\": {\"color\": 'red'}},<br \/>\n\t \"vAxis\": {\"title\": 'Value', \"titleTextStyle\": {\"color\": 'red'}},<br \/>\n    \"labelPosition\":\"right\",\"is3D\":true,\"hasLabelsColumn\":true,},<br \/>\n    \"refreshInterval\":5,<br \/>\n    }<br \/>\n  <\/script><br><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Source: Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Consumer Protection<\/span><br style=\"font-style: italic;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Analysis and comments: ODA<\/span><br style=\"font-style: italic;\"><br>The agro-industry sector in Albania has a great development potential. Only in 2010, the government decided to subsidize the large-scale production of milk and the olive oil extra virgin production. This measure is necessary, in order for the Albanian agro-industry sector to be competitive in the market and even export its products.<\/p>\n<p>All the information is shown in the dynamic tables below:<\/p>\n<p>  <script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/ajax.googleapis.com\/ajax\/static\/modules\/gviz\/1.0\/chart.js\">{\"dataSourceUrl\":\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheet\/tq?range=A48%3AI53&key=0Agylwmr5tEbVdGNod0h4LTlxVHJwTW9xZTJLYWNHcVE&gid=0&headers=-1\",\"options\":{\"displayAnnotations\":true,\"showTip\":true,\"dataMode\":\"markers\",\"fontColor\":\"#fff\",\"midColor\":\"#36c\",\"pointSize\":0,\"colors\":[\"#3366CC\",\"#DC3912\",\"#FF9900\",\"#109618\",\"#990099\",\"#0099C6\",\"#DD4477\",\"#66AA00\",\"#B82E2E\",\"#316395\"],\"headerColor\":\"#3d85c6\",\"smoothLine\":false,\"lineWidth\":2,\"maxColor\":\"#222\",\"headerHeight\":40,\"labelPosition\":\"right\",\"is3D\":false,\"fontSize\":\"14px\",\"hasLabelsColumn\":true,\"wmode\":\"opaque\",\"hAxis\":{\"maxAlternation\":1},\"maxDepth\":2,\"allowCollapse\":true,\"minColor\":\"#ccc\",\"mapType\":\"hybrid\",\"width\":600,\"height\":250},\"state\":{},\"chartType\":\"Table\",\"chartName\":\"Chart 1\"}<br \/>\n  <\/script><br><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Source: Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Consumer Protection<\/span><br style=\"font-style: italic;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Analysis and comments: ODA<\/span><br style=\"font-style: italic;\"><br> \n  <script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/ajax.googleapis.com\/ajax\/static\/modules\/gviz\/1.0\/chart.js\">{\"dataSourceUrl\":\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheet\/tq?range=A58%3AB76&key=0Agylwmr5tEbVdGNod0h4LTlxVHJwTW9xZTJLYWNHcVE&gid=0&headers=-1\",\"options\":{\"displayAnnotations\":true,\"showTip\":true,\"dataMode\":\"markers\",\"fontColor\":\"#fff\",\"midColor\":\"#36c\",\"pointSize\":0,\"colors\":[\"#3366CC\",\"#DC3912\",\"#FF9900\",\"#109618\",\"#990099\",\"#0099C6\",\"#DD4477\",\"#66AA00\",\"#B82E2E\",\"#316395\"],\"headerColor\":\"#3d85c6\",\"smoothLine\":false,\"lineWidth\":2,\"maxColor\":\"#222\",\"headerHeight\":40,\"labelPosition\":\"right\",\"is3D\":false,\"fontSize\":\"14px\",\"hasLabelsColumn\":true,\"wmode\":\"opaque\",\"hAxis\":{\"maxAlternation\":1},\"maxDepth\":2,\"allowCollapse\":true,\"minColor\":\"#ccc\",\"mapType\":\"hybrid\",\"width\":500,\"height\":500},\"state\":{},\"chartType\":\"Table\",\"chartName\":\"Chart 1\"}<br \/>\n  <\/script> <br><sup>Source: Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Consumer Protection<br>Analysis and comments: ODA<\/sup><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<b>Comments and Analysis:<\/b> Open Data Albania<br> \n<b>Contributed by<\/b>: R.E\n<style>\np{\ntext-align: justify !important;\n}\n<\/style>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Open Data Albania has conducted a research work on the agro-industry sector in the last years, based on data provided from the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Consumer Protection. Agro-industry is the industry that deals with agricultural products mass production. In the last years, the number of firms in the agro-industrial sector has changed as shown in the graph: Source: Ministry of Agriculture, Food and&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":25437,"url":"https:\/\/ndiqparate.al\/?p=25437&lang=en","url_meta":{"origin":8682,"position":0},"title":"Newsletter Public Procurement in Election Years: Findings on Risk, Competition, and Financial Efficiency","date":"January 20, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"The organization AIS \/ Open Data Albania has drafted the monitoring and evidence-based report \u201cPublic Procurement in Election Years: Statistical Evidence and Risk Analysis 2015\u20132025\u201d. 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