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Three companies importing chemical fertilizers have been fined by the Competition Authority after they immediately increased the prices and from today it returns the chemical fertilizers market under investigation for another year.
It is about the company Agro Blend fined with 118.9 million ALL, the enterprise MBM and ÇAÇA shpk respectively fined with 66 and 7 million ALL.
Three companies were under investigation for a year together with 7 other chemical fertilizer companies Arli Internacional, Eco-Green, Lila, Agro-Means, IAM, Agrohelp-Sa and Besniku shpk, so in total 10 companies that are monitored by the Authority for their behavior in the market.
During this period, according to the notification of the Authority, the three fined companies violated the law on protection of competition by simultaneously setting the selling prices of the chemical fertilizers dap, nitrate and urea by dividing the markets.
The denunciation that the fertilizer market has turned into a cartel and that companies are controlling the market has been made continuously by former Deputy Prime Minister Erion Brace.
Even in Thursday’s plenary session, Brace asked the Ministry of Agriculture several times in a row to take emergency measures to reduce the prices of agricultural inputs, including chemical fertilizers, as this, according to him, is hitting farmers.
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