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ALGERIA/MOROCCO -Algeria and Morocco, Africa’s key players in the wheat trade have abandoned French wheat for Russian wheat following increasingly deteriorating relations between the North Africa nations with France, the Ecofin Agency has reported. Alexandre Marie, chief analyst for Agritel (Argus Media France), told the agricultural news daily Terre-Net, on the sidelines of a conference organized in Paris on August 24…
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ALGERIA – The Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) of the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has projected that Algeria will import 8.7 million tonnes of wheat, nearly 1.2 million tonnes more than a year earlier. According to USDA, this jump in purchases is linked to production which should contract by nearly 600,000 tonnes to 2.7 million tonnes, due to the dry…
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ALGERIA – The Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) of the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has slashed Algeria’s wheat and barley outlook for the marketing year 2023-24 following an ongoing drought and heat conditions in the country’s non-irrigated areas. According to USDA, ongoing below-average precipitation levels during important crop development periods led to this downward outlook, particularly in coastal and highland…
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ALGERIA- Mohamed Abdelhafidh Henni, Algeria’s Minister of Agriculture, has kicked off construction work on a cereal storage complex with an estimated capacity of 20,000 tonnes, according to a statement recently posted on the Ministry’s Facebook page. Algeria is the second largest importer of cereals in Africa after Egypt. Local production of about around 4 million tonnes per year barely meets…
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ALGERIA – Cevital Food, a leading agro-industry company in Algeria has launched its cooking oil production plant in the wilaya of Béjaïa in a bid to help reduce the country’s oilseed and cooking oil import bill. In Algeria, cooking oil is the 4th most imported food product after cereals, dairy products, and sugar. The production of local industry covers less than 25%…
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ALGERIA – The Algerian National Agricultural Land Office (ONTA) plans to distribute more than 200,000 hectares of agricultural land to private investors in a bid to boost wheat production. According to Ecofin Agency, this was revealed by Agriculture Minister Abdelhafid Henni who noted that the executive plans to distribute the land to private investors by next June. According to Henni,…
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ALGERIA – Algeria is planning to plant 45,000 hectares under sunflowers as part of sunflower production campaign aimed at improving local supply and shielding the country from erratic and expensive imports. The initiative was announced by Mohamed Haroun, a member of the Confederation of Algerian Industrialists and Producers (CIPA), ahead of 2023 sunflower production campaign 2023to be launched this month.…
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ALGERIA – The Algerian Inter-professional Office of Cereals (OAIC) has launched a public call for grain and pulse traders to register on its supplier shortlist as part of an expansion of its cereal’s supplier file. The OAIC is a state agency that procures grains on the domestic as well as international markets for sale and distribution in Algeria. The shortlist…
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RUSSIA- In 2022, Russia exported around 1.3 million tonnes of wheat to Algeria which is four times what Algeria imported from Russia in 2021- the Russian news agency Interfax reported. Citing data from the export center of the Ministry of Agriculture, Interfax provided that the North African country imported 330,000 tonnes of wheat from Russia in 2021. According to Eduard…
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ALGERIA – The Foreign Agricultural Service of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) forecasts wheat production in Algeria to reach 3.3 million metric tonnes in 2022/23 market year due to good climatic conditions. Post officials at FAS Egypt also forecast barley production to amount to 1.17 million MT at 1.2MT per hectare. The figures are in line with the…
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