Tebboune orders new plan for Algerian agriculture

Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune ordered the preparation of a new plan for the organisation of agriculture at local level to improve transparency and the census of agricultural activities, during a Council of Ministers meeting held on Sunday 8 November, according to the Council of Ministers statement. He also ordered the creation of an office dedicated to pulses, while cereals will remain under the responsibility of the Algerian Interprofessional Cereals Office (OAIC).

Abdelmadjid Tebboune also called for the immediate creation of a service responsible for statistics for all agricultural activities and trades, in order to reduce delays in supplying the national market, particularly with widely consumed products, according to the Council of Ministers. He tasked Agriculture Minister Sid Ali Khaldi with preparing a new distribution of responsibilities, with fisheries entrusted to a delegated minister and forests to a secretary of state.

For the next harvest campaign, the Algerian president ordered the preparation from November of the necessary mechanisation resources in production areas, following the decision to create mechanisation cooperatives. He also called for agricultural land not to remain uncultivated and for efforts to combat farmers' withholding of production, according to the Council of Ministers.

The meeting comes after the agricultural dossier was considered on the agenda of the Council of Ministers meeting of 4 October. It also comes on the day of the publication on the ban on fallowing and silage maize in Algeria, announced on 8 November in Tebboune bans fallowing and silage maize in Algeria.