USAID/Kosovo Program and Policy Office Director Paul Vaca helped inaugurate a new vegetable processing line at the Eurofood Vegetable Processing Company on July 14th in the village of Xerxe in Rahovec.
It’s not every day that we have the chance to see first-hand the shoe manufacturing process or that of honey-making and cosmetics. On June 21st, USAID/Kosovo Democracy and Governance Acting Director Miranda Jolicoeur joined the Advancing Kosovo Together Local Solution (AKT-LS) team on a field visit to two of the program’s business grantees, SHPK ERUDITI and NPT GRUDA.
USAID Mission Director James Hope visited Agro Red Gold on June 28th, an association of raspberry growers and collectors of non-wood forest products (NWFP) and medical and aromatic plants (MAPs), headquartered in the village of Recane in Prizren.
On June 28th in Prizren, USAID Mission Director James Hope witnessed the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between EMPOWER Private Sector and DokuFest.
It’s blueberry and strawberry season in Kosovo, and local growers from around the country gathered on June 20th to sell and display their freshly-picked harvests in downtown Pristina. Chargé d'Affaires Colleen Hyland and USAID Mission Director James Hope were on hand to meet the growers and sample a wide array of fruit, pastries, and cakes made with the berries. Strawberries and blueberries are relatively new crops in Kosovo but they’re undergoing a period of rapid growth and both crops hold a lot of promise. They’re ideally suited to small-scale production, which means they c
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