
13.2014 farmers benefited last year from the support measures in agriculture through the National Scheme 2023, or in other words 95 percent of the applicants.
Referring to the budget monitoring report of the Ministry of Agriculture for 2023, it is noted that for the first time, all regular applications have benefited and have been disbursed 100%. This is because there was a significant increase in funds for support measures, which reached about 5.1 billion ALL in total, from 3.3 billion planned at the beginning of the year, of which 2.7 billion ALL for national schemes.
But who benefited most from these schemes? According to the report, the largest disbursement of funds was in measure no. 2, "Support for the basic matriculated herd, head/sheep/goat" with about 46% of the disbursed fund, followed by measure no. 1 "Support for the basic matriculated herd, head/cow", with about 26%. Then measure No. 3 "Support for beekeeping breeding", with about 15%, as well as measure No. 4 "Support for seeds/seedlings and other inputs", with about 12.6% of the disbursed fund. Also, these measures have had the highest number of applications and beneficiaries.
Regarding the distribution map of these funds, the counties with the highest number of beneficiaries and disbursements were Vlora with about 20.2% of the total disbursed fund, Fieri with 15.3% of the fund, Korça with 13%, Gjirokastra with 12.6%, Berat with 9.6% of the disbursed fund, etc. The district with the lowest benefit of the fund is Lezha with about 2.4% of the fund. Similarly, the highest number of applications in the amount of support for livestock was in the region of Vlora, followed by the regions of Korça, Fier and Gjirokastra.
The number of women beneficiaries of the support scheme has been about 15.7% of the total number of beneficiaries, a percentage which has been constantly increasing, this as a result of women's awareness, through agricultural extension structures, knowledge transfer, informative meetings, etc. .