Oliviculture in Albania. Situacion and perspective
M.Sc. Arben Tërpollari1, Prof. Dr. Stilian Apostoli2, Prof. Asoc. Edmond Kadiu2
1Municipality of Tirana, Department of P.T.U.U
2Faculty of Economics and Agribusiness, Agriculture University of Tirana, Albania
Abstract
Fruit trees in general and olive groves in particular, are an agricultural sector that after 2000 have known satisfactory development rates. This development has its own effects on the performance of agriculture itself and on the oil industry, which leads to the improvement of living standards and poverty reduction in rural-agricultural areas.
Olive groves production as a group of output branches, within the complex of fruit trees production branches, occupies nearly 30% of their structure, with opportunities for development performance in perspective.
Currently (years 2000-2011) olive groves production is characterized by positive developments concerning the numerical growth of roots, rendiments and olive oil production, as evidenced in the following material. In perspective it is thought that the opportunities of development of olive and olive oil productions are promising, which is shown in the development project of 2010-2022. Olive production can be increased to 60,000 hectares(20 millions roots) new olive trees, while olive oil could reach the cipher of over 40,000 tons in 2022. What is noticed during this performance is the intense and super intense road of development, the rehabilitation of existing olive groves in about 12,000 ha, and also the increasing of refinement capacities of olive oil in nearly 160 new factories by 2022. Seen as a whole, this development predicts that the olive production in the end of the period reaches the target of 13 liters per capita and the growth of its export opportunities.
