January 20 (SeeNews) - In SeeNews story "Green Soil Kosovo drops plan to build fruit & vegetables processing factory in Mitrovica" dated January 20, please note that the second and the last paragraph inaccurately report that GreenSoil Investments is the parent company of Green Soil Kosovo. The parent company is Masr Fruit Investment BV.
A corrected version follows:
Fruit and vegetables supplier Green Soil Kosovo said on Friday it has decided to cancel its investment plan for the construction of a 700,000 euro ($744,650) processing factory in Mitrovica, in northern Kosovo.
The company, a unit of Netherlands-headquartered Masr Fruit Investment BV, has decided to drop the plan due to what it described as atmosphere of uncertainty and unfavourable conditions created by Mitrovica municipal authorities, Erblin Zhubi, director of Green Soil Kosovo, told SeeNews in a Facebook message.
The construction of the factory was due to start in October 2016.
The construction site was not prepared, there were no streets and the plots of land in the industrial zone of Mitrovica were not separated, according to Green Soil Kosovo.
Zhubi dismissed as false local media reports - attributed to a Mitrovica municipal government official - that the company allegedly did not have enough funds to start building the factory.
Green Soil Kosovo pointed out that they were withdrawing from Mitrovica municipality, not from Kosovo.
"In order to continue, we are looking for another municipality which will offer us favourable conditions to allow our business to develop in a normal way," Erblin Zhubi said.
Green Soil Kosovo says on its website it exported peppers last year and plans to export blueberries, raspberries and melons in 2017.
Masr Fruit was established forty years ago. It cultivates land in Egypt, Morocco, Greece, Albania and since 2016 in Kosovo, according to information provided by Green Soil Kosovo.
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