With wheat, against Putin! Durrës patriotic farmer plants 137 hectares of cereals

Erlin Lala, from the village of Jubë in Durrës, meanwhile succeeded. Only with his brother he has planted and cultivated cereals on 137 hectares of land.

“Of which 55 ha are wheat, 65 ha corn, 5 ha beans and the rest alfalfa“, Says Lala.

Unlike his peers, Erlini says the job he knows how to do best is to work the land. Although he completed his studies in economic informatics, the 29-year-old says that he never turned on the computer, since as a child his passion was agriculture. Although young, the farmer who plants half the village with wheat and corn, says his passion is also patriotic.

According to Erlin, Albania has the agricultural potential to gain independence from Russian wheat.

“To eat Albanian bread should start from the infrastructure by arranging roads and drainage canals, then there will be no piece of land left without planting. “And we will not need either Serbia or Russia.”

Besides the road, bread would be produced with Albanian flour if the grain of the grain farmer was not valued so little by the big traders.

“Last year, we sold wheat at 33 per quintal, 300 thousand ALL per ton at collection points. With the costs that we have this year for dynym go to 210 thousand old lekë. If wheat is sold below 55 lek this year, we as farmers are bankrupt “.

Despite the war, wheat from faraway Russia still costs less than the wheat that Erlin cultivates in Durres. Putin may be a dictator, but he subsidizes the Russian farmer twice for the same culture.

Our farmers plant less and less cereals, consequently our country is supplied with wheat from Russia, Ukraine and Serbia. Dependence on imports in this time of war, taught us the necessity of this agricultural crop. For the wheat fields to increase, it is time for the Ministry of Agriculture to subsidize the farmer for the planted area, so the bread will cost the consumer cheaper than today.

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