TIRANA, December 22/ATA/ In line with tradition for the festive season, Mayor of Tirana Erion Veliaj visited the turkey market in Baldushk, an area well-known for raising them.

He invited the citizens of Tirana, but also accommodation structures, such as hotels, guesthouses, etc., to buy turkey in Baldushk, as a way to contribute to the local economy of the area.

“When you buy a product produced in our village, you have contributed to the family of our village. This means that you have contributed to these children buying their school books, their clothes, to attend an after-school course, to engage in cultural activities, so I invite everyone to see it as a mission to ensure well-being in this community, to help the people who work their whole lives and all year with this product, which is a source of pride for our Tirana”, said Veliaj.

He described the Baldushk turkey as the best product of its kind in Albania and the Balkans.

“This area produces 30-50 thousand turkeys every year, which renders into 3-5 million euros investment in this single week of holidays, in this community. This land can produce economy, it can produce well-being and the fact that many of the farmers, who until yesterday worked the lands of the Greeks and Italians, today work their own land, raise their turkeys, cultivate their farm. It means that you can do good things and economy here in Albania, too”, he said.

Praising the farmers for their hard work in raising organic turkeys, the mayor called on all citizens to buy the turkey in Baldushk. “It is an extraordinary opportunity, not to abandon this land. This land can produce economy; it can produce well-being. "Therefore, I invite all citizens of Tirana, all bars in Tirana, all hotels in Tirana, guesthouses, to buy only Baldushku's turkeys," Veliaj concluded. /m.m/a.f/p.s./