The Chamber of Agriculture of the State of Algiers.. Granting the farmer’s card to this category – New Algeria

The head of the agricultural chamber of the state of Algiers, Ibrahim Jribia, announced today, Wednesday, that the chamber will soon begin granting… Farmer card For partners in agricultural investments, in implementation of the measures of Joint Ministerial Circular No. 2 issued last June 1, relating to the cleansing of agricultural real estate belonging to the state’s private property within the framework of various grant and exploitation formulas.

Jribia explained, in his speech to the Algerian News Agency, on the sidelines of the opening of the fourth edition of the Algiers State Citrus Exhibition, that the agricultural chambers had not previously recognized the farmer’s status of the partner who works on the concessionaire’s land, due to the absence of legal mechanisms for that, but the new circular obliges them to prepare the farmer’s professional card based on the partnership’s graphic card and the partnership contract.

He added that the Chamber’s Board of Directors recently studied dozens of files, and their owners will be granted Al-Falah cards soon.

On the other hand, Ibrahim Jaribiyeh highlighted the state’s “important capabilities” in the field of citrus cultivation, whose productivity reaches more than 1.3 million quintals annually thanks to reliance on intensive agriculture.

The President of the Chamber indicated that the state of Algeria ranks first nationally in… Citrus productionThe area of ​​land allocated to the division exceeds 7,000 hectares out of a total of 80,000 hectares at the national level, stressing that “Algiers is still an agricultural state.”

He added that raising the level of production was achieved through intensive agriculture, as between 600 and 800 trees are currently planted per hectare, compared to 300 trees previously, while improving quality thanks to the diversity of varieties and following modern methods of agriculture.

The director of agricultural services for the state of Algiers, Mehdi Missaoui, also highlighted efforts to maintain “high production levels,” by moving towards the use of multi-domed greenhouses, which were distributed over about 200 hectares in the state, with a focus on using treated water to reduce pressure on traditional water, pointing to a project under study with the Irrigation Directorate that aims to water 4 hectares of fruit trees at the state level.