Another painful history of Albanian agriculture repeats itself as the farmers of the Çerma in Divjaka in the southwest of Albania, complain about the lack of a market for their watermelon produce.
These hundreds of quintals of watermelons should have been in the fruit and vegetable stores, but this season they remain in the field.
For the farmers, this sight causes pain as a year’s work is rotting in the field, while even the low price of 60 Lek per kilogram is not attracting interest for export.
Even those farmers who planted this crop a little later are trying to protect the production from high temperatures by covering it with grass, but even this cannot be done for a long time.
Faced with this situation, some of them say that they will leave their land and country to migrate.
The countries that bought most of the watermelon from Albania ware Kosovo and Serbia, but the increase in temperatures enabled these two countries produce the refreshing summer fruit themselves.
This means that these two big markets no longer need “Made in Albania” watermelons.
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