Balcony: The southern regions contribute 26% to agricultural production – Al-Hiwar Algeria

The southern regions contribute 26 percent to supplying the national market with agricultural products, while the area of ​​agricultural land in the south represents 7 percent of the total national agricultural area.
Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Youssef Charfa, revealed in his intervention. On the occasion of the national meeting on agricultural investment in the southern states. Today, Monday, in Adrar, the area of ​​agricultural lands in the southern regions. It represents 7 percent of the total national agricultural area used.
The Minister highlighted its “significant” contribution to supplying the national market with agricultural products. Similar to cereals (11 percent). Vegetables (26.4 percent) and potatoes (32 percent).
The minister pointed out that the share of the southern regions in the total value of agricultural production. It amounts to about 26 percent, pointing out that achieving the set goals for strategic agriculture “is still far away,” and these goals are represented in reducing the import bill for grains, sugar, table oil, fodder, milk powder, and cotton.
In a related context, the Minister considered that this meeting was organized under the slogan “Agriculture in the South, the strength of our food security.” It is considered an opportunity to evaluate the extent to which the established objectives have been implemented in the field of structured agricultural investment. As well as reconsidering some aspects of organizing the investment process, and easing administrative procedures for customers to accelerate the pace of completion. Especially after granting the third real estate portfolio to the Office for the Development of Industrial Agriculture in desert lands, and preparing to launch a new portfolio.
Regarding connecting agricultural investments to electricity, Sharfa indicated that this program witnessed a “fair” pace of completion, after connecting 38,000 agricultural investments over a length of 17,400 km since the start of the process in late 2020 until the end of this month. In this context, he praised the efforts of the Ministry of Energy and Mines, as well as What the Ministry of Irrigation is doing with regard to granting licenses to drill wells, and the Ministry of Industry and Pharmaceutical Production in terms of providing appropriate mechanization for large areas.