Meat prices reach their nadir in Algeria

For the firs time since independence, meat prices have slumped to a historic level to make this essential food commodity affordable to most of the Algerian families and grew challenging fish and poultry.

In some regions of the country, the prices have reached their lowest levels since 25 years and meat was sold at 280 Algerian Dinars. This drastic slump has been explained by the cattle breeders, to the great quantity of sheep this year combined with the precautious rise of temperatures, set to go even higher in mid May, predicting a dry season thus less grass for their sheep.

But other causes were put forward to explain this sudden fall, notably a tight control on the smugglers who used practice contraband with the Algerian sheep across the borders as well as the end of the religious feast that usually require sheep sacrifice especially during the fasting month of Ramadhan.