2024-03-28 17:05:36
ALGIERS – Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Youcef Cherfa announced, Thursday in Algiers, that the General Agricultural Census (RGA) will begin before the end of the first half of 2024.
“We are approaching the general census of agriculture (RGA) which will begin before the end of the first semester. It will be announced after the meeting of the national commission for the preparation of the RGA,” indicated Mr. Cherfa during a plenary session at the Council of the Nation devoted to oral questions, recalling the instructions of the President of the Republic given to the government during the last Council of Ministers over which he had chaired, in order to attach great importance to the general census in the sector of the agriculture, being an essential mechanism for knowing national capacities and identifying needs in order to make the right decisions based on accurate scientific data.
The RGA will be global affecting the different aspects of the sector including animal wealth, the number of investors, investment and production methods, explained the minister in response to a question from Senator Ameri Dahane (FLN) on the deadlines set for the regularization of the situation of breeders in the wilaya of Naama having been identified, the registration of breeders identified in the platform and others who had failed to register for previous operations so that they can stock up on barley subsidized.
This operation will allow the development of a map for agricultural wealth, he added.
State services had distributed more than 1.44 million quintals of barley for the benefit of 98,405 breeders nationally between October 2023 and March 2024, the minister said.
This quantity distributed each year by State services to breeders allows the protection of animal wealth, underlined Mr. Cherfa, adding that the daily ration is set at 600 grams per head of sheep and goats, while for camels, the ration was set at 2 kg per head.
Responding to the question from the member of the Council of the Nation, Mr. Tahar Ghazil (El-Moustakbal Front), relating to the measures taken by the sector to encourage producers of feed corn, Mr. Cherfa reassured that the ministry had put in place several development programs to promote agriculture in all its sectors, particularly in terms of fodder products which effectively contribute to the increase and improvement of animal production.
Among his measures, the minister cited supporting breeders on financial and technical levels, as well as addressing their concerns and providing fodder subsidized by the State.
He also noted the support and incentive for fodder producers through the subsidy of production inputs, primarily fodder seeds, and support for the production of dry fodder, in addition to measures allowing farmers to benefit from financial credits, including the “Rfig” seasonal credit, and the “Tahadi” investment credit.
These incentives will also allow breeders to acquire subsidized haylage fodder, including corn, in addition to financial incentives to purchase it at a subsidy rate of 5.40 DA/kg for fodder produced in the southern region, and at 4.20 DA/kg for those produced in the northern region, and through this measure, the State intervenes indirectly in the marketing and sale of wrapped fodder, added the minister.
As for the stagnation of fodder corn in the wilaya of Ghardaïa and El Meniaa, due to the refusal of breeders and dairies at the start of the 2021-2022 season to buy the product whose price set by the producers had known an increase, the minister reassured that his services had taken emergency measures to remedy the situation, by proposing, in coordination with the two parties, to cap prices and sell between 1500 DA and 1800 DA per quintal, which was accepted, “and since then, the wilayas have never recorded any disruption in the marketing of the product.”
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