Dreadful reports released by experts over pilot- farms developing project

The experts who were assigned the task by the presidency to make evaluation reports on the 192 pilot- farms program have concluded to frightening results including the total failure of project that consumed up to 11 billion Algerian Dinars since its launching two decades ago until the present.

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• The farms turned to ghost lands exhausted by debts. Some managers in the relevant sector are trying since 6 months to sort out a new  new formula to reignite the project depending on the content of the report concerning the feasibility of the operation financially or drop it definitely.
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• Echourok took a look at the content of some of the evaluation reports of the program of the 192 pilot-farms, which currently operates under the auspices of the Ministry of Rural Development and Agricultural Company contributions that were created 20 years ago to investment funds in seed and animal husbandry. 192 land parcels among the most fertile at the national level were selected to for the implementation of this program.
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• The technical and economic assessments have revealed that the project suffered a severe setback for various considerations at this time, pushing the government to inject 4 billion Algerian Dinars as part of the 98/99 budget of the National Office for the production of wines “ONCV” in a move to salvage the program.
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• As a consequence of this new strategy, 50 percent of the pilot-farms were supervised by the joint-stock company “SGB” while the others remained under the tutelage of the Agriculture Ministry.
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• According to the reports, the farms haven’t seen the light yet but billions have been squandered already in alleged works of diggings and plantings.
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• As a last ditch effort to reignite the program, the government has decided to pump 5 billion Algerian Dinars after the farms’ bankruptcy their inability even to guarantee the farmers’ wages. The prevailing situation goes back with the project to point zero, according to the same reports.
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