A brochure providing potential foreign investors with an overview of the Albanian Agro-processing Sector. Investing in agro-processing offers extensive opportunities, especially in organic farming, fruit and vegetable processing and several other sectors.

RisiAlbania has commissioned the Gender-Sensitive Research on Agro-processing (AP) Sub-Sectors seasonality and Potential for Crediting’ with the objective to conduct and assessment on the potential for bridging the interest of the two important actors the banks and agro-processing business at the mutual benefits in order to allow for cash flow that would support the increasing […]

Agro-processing as an industry feeds on Albania’s most important sector, agriculture, while carrying the growth potential of manufacturing. Its interdisciplinary nature offers multiple entry points for enhancing growth and any improvements of the business performance in the sector are very likely to affect both production and retail.

Since the inception phase, the RisiAlbania Project team has identified that the policy environment concerning agro-processing is not sufficiently conducive to growth. The reason for this lies with several policy-related constraints and the inability of agro-processors to advocate for addressing them. Therefore, in order to design adequate policies for intervention, there is a need to […]

The agro-processing sector is an important sector of the Albanian economy generating a turnover of ALL 56,5241 (Euro 403 million) as of 2011. This amounts to 25.1% of the total agriculture turnover or 5% of the total Albanian GDP2 (Albanian Institute of Statistics: INSTAT 2012).

AP’s see their business growth related to new investments in working capital, equipment and technology. Unlike other businesses, however, there is a disconnection between financial products and AP’s business needs. A total of 176 AP businesses representing 7 sub-sectors from over 11 main regions, representing 8% of total industry and 19% of total sector employees […]