“Kop Frut” in Dibër is the newest plant in the Albanian agrifood industry for the production of juices. Today, Prime Minister Edi Rama visited this plant that, thanks to the support of the Albanian government and of the Agency of Agricultural and Rural Development, has just started using a modern line for producing 100% bio juices. Thanks to this new investment, the owner of the company aims at increasing production and employment, as well as selling to the foreign market. The plant treats local fruit.

“We are very happy and we thank you, because you can see the results of this investment. Controls have been strict both by you and by AARD. The next phase is to promote employment, treatment and export. We will start collaborating with farmers, so that we can produce and sell the product. There will be thousands of jobs. This product will come also from Korçe, because Korçe is the same as Diber. There will be up to 1500 jobs, and it will be a chain, at least one employed person per family, but they might be also three or four per family” – he said.

According to Director of AARD Sula Popa, this investment has increased the opportunities to collect fruits by local farmers, especially by apple growers of the district of Korçe. The agency, she assured, will continue to support investments in production in order to create a closed cycle in the country between collectors and local producers of fruits.

“Today we are happy because, through this investment, we have financially supported every fruit collector in the region of Diber, and on the other hand we have solved in the district of Korçe an issue relating to the selling of these products. We are now establishing connections among districts. The products of Korçe can be treated in Diber, and we can enter agreements with other countries in the region”, Popa said.

Our ambition as well as the entrepreneur’s certainty to be successful in the region and beyond are both great. According to him, the construction of the road of Arber would facilitate a lot the farmers of the area. It is a concern he told about also to the Prime Minister. “Every time Berisha came to Maqellare, people would ask him to complete the road of Arber. He didn’t do it. Normally he should have.”

The Prime Minister assured that this issue has been put on the right track. “He keeps going on his way in his own direction. The right direction is us. The road of Arber has passed in parliament and work will start. Meanwhile, we must complement it with major support to agriculture.”