Government excluded agriculture in the new industrial strategy: Algerian minister says

Algerian Minister of Industry, Hamid Temmar Monday revealed that the government didn’t include the sector of agriculture in the newly outlined industrial strategy despite the special interest given by the experts to the agriculture industry, but promised to ask the agriculture minister to reconsider the.

• On this occasion, the minister seized the opportunity to call on the professionals in the sector to take their responsibilities and stop asking the government to intervene in the regulation of their sector of activity, because this task has to be done by them as everywhere in the world, mentioning that the government has moved to another strategy of subsidiary which gives the priority to the production in order to reduce the bill of importations.
• In Monday’s resolutions, both the professionals in the agriculture sector and their counterparts in the sector of industry, agreed upon the importance to reactivate the offices to regulate the sector notably, cereals, potato, tomato, meat, oil, milk and dates and create a special bank to finance agriculture as well as move to gradual loosing of prices to avoid contraband and waste.