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TIRANA, Jan. 11 – Uncommon freezing temperatures that have swept Albania during the past few days are having a negative impact on the Albanian economy, especially the key agriculture sector with hundreds of hectares of greenhouse crops already damaged. The situation is more critical in the southern region of Fier, known as the breadbasket of Albania’s agriculture, where hundreds of hectares of tomato and strawberry crops have been severely damaged by temperatures of 10 degrees Celsius below zero due to lack of heating systems. Farmers say the situation is worse than in the past couple of years when they also…