April 2000 trip

Albania Trip March-April 2000
Douglas G. Pfeiffer
Associate Professor
Department of Entomology
205C Price Hall
Blacksburg, VA 24061-0319

Ph. (540) 231-4183
Fax (540) 231-9131
dgpfeiff@vt.edu

Dates and Places visited:

March 30, Thursday - Tirana:
- Olive section for potting
- Rexhep Uka with potted olive tree
- Grafted apple tree
- Library at AUT in process of being refurbished
- Library exterior
- View from AUT campus
- Entomology lab at AUT
March 31, Friday - Durress:
- Vangjel Jovani, nematologist, at microscope
- Nematology lab, in Shkozet
- Skender Varaku, at Jovani's nematology lab in Shkozet
- Ejup Cota, new entomologist at scope in Shkozet
- First load of equipment being unloaded at Shkozet
- Harallamb Pace, with new chamber from Dutch project
- New water still at Shkozet
- New shaker at Shkozet
- New centrifuge at Shkozet
- Old autoclave at Shkozet
- Enver Isufi in Entomology lab
- View of neighborhood at Shkozet
- Old cabinets for insect rearing
- Scale insects on oleander
- Mosque near PPI
- New greenhouse at Shkozet
- View on highway back to Tirana
- View on highway to Tirana
April 1, Saturday - Kruja:
- Approaching Kruja
- Skanderbeg Museum
- Urn for storing olive oil at Ethnographic Museum
- Still for raki production
- Forms for making traditional fez
- Wheel for crushing olives
- Press for extracting olive oil
- Scene in Kruja
- Olive tree planted by Skanderbeg
April 2, Sunday - Durress:
- Amphitheatre in Durress
- Placard at amphitheatre
- Byzantine chapel artwork
- Baptismal font in amphitheatre
- Entrancee for gladiators
- View in Durress
- View toward port
- Another view toward port
- View of Durress street
- View of Durrress with Zog's castle in background
- View toward water, with statues commemorating resistance to Italian invasion, 1939.
- View from Hotel Stela with Hotel Tirana International in background
April 3, Monday - Vlora:
- Tomatoes in greenhouse on road to Vlora
- Datura grown in greenhouse for export to Germany
- Leaving greenhouse on road to Vlora
- Leaving greenhouse on road to Vlora
- Traffic jam in town
- Port of Vlora
- Vlora Bay
- Vlora Bay
- Entomology/Plant Pathology lab at Fruit Tree Research institute at Vlora
- Analytical scale, broken
- Mendim Baci and Bardhosh Feraj, phytopathologist and director at Vlora
- Library
- Dhimiter Panajoti
- Departing for field plots
- View from FTRI
- Rexhep Uka gathering samples
- Bujar Huqi and Vangjel Jovani from Durress on Vlore trip
- View from olive grove
- Olive knot
- Olive knot
- Group dispersing for sampling at field plots
- Mendim Baci soil sampling
- Olive twig
- Olive twig
- Olive moth pupa
- Chilocorus, predator in olive orchards
- Olive leaf with curl symptoms
- Olive leaf with curl symptoms
- Soil cultivation in Vlore plots
- Soil cultivation in Vlore plots
- Soil cultivation in Vlore plots
- Hairi Ismaili discussing plot plot map, with Bujar Huqi and Irida Hoxha
- Plot labels on trunks of Vlore plots
- Different levels of tree pruning:
  - Level 1
  - Level 2
  - Level 3
  - Level 4
  - Level 5
- Zaim Veshi and Hairi Ismaili at Vlore plots
- Leaf injury
- Vangjel Jovani, Durress nematologist
- Bujar Huqi, Durress weed scientist
April 5, Wednesday - Tirana:
- Myzejen Hasani, phytopathologist at AUT
- Old autoclave at AUT
- Teaching space at AUT, doubling as lab space
- Samples of fire blight on apple, and olive knot on olive
- Lab space, awaiting equipment
- Fadil Thomaj, horticulturist at AUT
- Magdalena Bregasi, agricultural economist at AUT
April 6, Thursday - Tirana:
- Arben Molla with Josef, Director of Agricultural Programs Office at Ministry of Agriculture and Food
- Tatjana Dishnica , Director of Science and Extension at Ministry of Agriculture and Food, with Josef and me
- Framed photo of 2,000-year-old olive tree at MOAF
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Douglas G. Pfeiffer