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Field visit in the frame of SSPDF project

17 Jun, 2020


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On 16 June 2020, CNVP Kosovo team together with a delegation from the Embassy of Sweden in Pristina held a field visit to “Blinaja” forest-hunting area in Lipjan, where they met the Kosovo Forestry Agency, then filed visit continued in Peja and Decan meeting Association of Private Forestry Owners (APFO) of "Bjeshket e Rugoves" and Women and Youth Producers beekeepers group.The delegation also visited demonstration plots with chestnuts trees new varieties and an "Agro-product" company in Istog Municipality.

The purpose of this field visit was to see the level of progress of implementation of the SSPDF project activities in promotion of sustainable forest management including biomass production, promotion of activities in the beekeeping and chestnuts value chains as well as the promotion of the networking among WYPG cultivating medicinal aromatic plants (MAPs)  and “Agro-product’ company dealing with collection, packaging, and marketing of MAPs.  The field visit was under the framework of Sida-funded project "Strengthening Sustainable Private and Decentralized Forests"