The number of asylum seekers from Kosovo arriving in Germany has seen a further sharp fall following a spike at the beginning of the year, a Saturday newspaper report quoted an official as saying, according to dpa. At the beginning of February, German authorities were registering up to 1,500 Kosovan refugees per day, but now the number was less than 100 per day, the government's top migration official, Manfred Schmidt, told the Rheinische Post. "People have understood that the asylum system in Germany can not be the solution to their difficult economic situation in Kosovo," Schmidt said. He said the reduction in the refugee numbers showed that the concentrated efforts of the asylum authorities in processing applications and an information programme in Kosovo were working. In January 3,630 Kosovans applied for asylum in Germany, up 85 per cent on December. In February the number jumped even higher to top 7,000. Almost all of the applications were rejected as the former Yugoslav territory, although impoverished, is not considered to persecute its population.