Estimated 4.5 billion euros turnover hashish produced only Lazar , while almost 12 regions of the country are covered by crop cultivation profitable . The figure emerged during a joint press conference the director of the Aviation Unit of the Guardia di Finanza , Stefano Bastoni and Director General of State Police , Hysni Byrgaj . The latest figures mocked the Italians without giving a date when it will intervene in Lazar even though everything is filmed and photographed for sunny day . While domestic economic output Albanian is about 10 billion euros per year , only 4.5 billion of hashish in Lazar account for nearly 50 % of this production . The taking into account the cultivation and production of drugs in all circles to pick another economy produces perhaps as parallel legal economy . Lazarati drug remains towns where the air operation to verify the plots planted with hashish with the cooperation of the Albanian police and the Guardia di aviation Finanzia 319 ha are full of this region , which reach a market worth 4.5 billion euros turnover . Asked by reporters , Director Burgaj accepted the situation , but rather that reported figures of representatives " Guardia di Finanza " chose to deny the truth and why every day on Italian shores significant amount of drugs seized . While the end of the conference , Albanian police was handed the photograph and map of the plots monitored with hashish , the official response was absent when to intervene in Lazar .