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Innovation Infrastructures: Albania FINAL VERSION
Submission Date: July 22, 2011
enhancing business innovation services of BSPs, awareness raising) without being
burdened with administrative tasks. (METE 2011:7). It is envisaged to raise the
number of employers in the following years.
Contact
Website: www.aida.gov.al 2
Phone: +355 4 2250 970, +355 4 2251 001
Address: Blvd. Gjergj Fishta, Pall. Shallvareve, Tirana, Albania
Contact Person:
Eneida Guria, Executive Director
E-mail: eneida.guria@aida.gov.al
Centres of Agricultural Technology Transfer (QTTB)
Acronym: QTTB
Organisation title in local language: Qendrat e Transferimit të Teknologjive Bujqësore
Organisation type: Cluster/Incubator/Innovation Infrastructure
Following the decision of the Council of Ministers no. 515 (2006) on the restructuring
of research institutes under Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Consumer Protection,
five centres of agricultural technology transfer have been established. The main
objective of these centres is to support the direct transfer of agricultural technologies
to farmers by testing, adapting and introducing new agricultural practices, methods
and materials, research on problems raised by local farmers, training of farmers,
students, etc., provision of technical expertise, demonstration of new technologies in
agriculture and support the ministry of agriculture in policy-making.
In addition to the focus on the specific needs and priorities of their region, each
centre concentrates on specific activities and agricultural crops as follows:
1. Centre of Agricultural Technology Transfer, Fushë-Krujë:
Forage cultivation, legume (white beans), bovine, swine (pigs), poultry and integrated
management of farm; services for soil and water; needs and other priorities of the
region
2. Centre of Agricultural Technology Transfer, Lushnjë:
Vegetables in greenhouses and open field; wheat; needs and other priorities of the
region
3. Centre of Agricultural Technology Transfer, Vlorë:
Nuclei fruit trees, olive trees, vineyards, citrus; needs and other priorities of the
region
4. Centre of Agricultural Technology Transfer, Korçë:
Small ruminants, Seedy fruit trees (apples), potatoes, barley; needs and other
priorities of the region
2 under construction as in May 2011
Innovation Support
Dissemination level: Public
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