Albanian agriculture is characterised by small and fragmented farms issued from a
radical decollectivization process in the 1990s. After twenty years, the Albanian farm
structure has not changed a lot. Farms are still small and their labour force supply is
higher than the real demand. This paper aims to identify the most productive farming
households in Albania and those which provide higher incomes for their members.
This paper uses a new farm level database in order to identify a representative farming
household typology and to draw conclusions about the productivity of each farm
household type. Average farm type work and land productivity as well as extreme and
complete poverty lines are considered as the main indicators to depict the agriculture’s
possibilities to provide enough incomes to rural households.