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Algeria Launches 2026-2027 Ploughing Season From Tiaret and Lays Foundation for One-Million-Quintal Silo

3 November 2026 · Algeria Now

Algeria Launches 2026-2027 Ploughing Season From Tiaret and Lays Foundation for One-Million-Quintal Silo — Photo : User:Bluemoose / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0

TIARET — Agriculture Minister Sid Ali Khaldi on Monday officially launched the 2026-2027 ploughing and sowing campaign from Tiaret province, a leading cereal-growing area in western Algeria, and laid the foundation stone of a strategic grain silo with a capacity of one million quintals, or 100,000 tonnes.

Speaking at a production unit in the municipality of Sebaa, Khaldi described Tiaret as a national cereal hub after what he called a record harvest last season. He restated the presidential directives to expand cultivated areas and raise yields per hectare, and ordered that seeds, fertilizers, equipment and irrigation water reach farmers on time. He also called for unused land to be brought into production using sound technical methods.

The silo, in the municipality of Ain Bouchekif, belongs to a national storage programme that includes 30 strategic silos and 350 local storage centres. Storage capacity matters because harvested grain must be kept safely to supply mills.

The minister also inspected the connection of 1,387 farms to the electricity grid, a new agricultural irrigation network and the planting of 350 hectares of disease-resistant fruit trees.

In Tiaret town, Khaldi inaugurated the new headquarters of the provincial chamber of agriculture. He then visited a unit that was formerly the Chaouchaoua stud farm, founded in 1877, where 132 horses, including Arabian and Barbary breeds, are kept. He called for the revival of horse breeding as a driver of economic and tourism growth and named the rehabilitation of the Emir Abdelkader equestrian centre a priority.

Food security is a stated pillar of Algeria's economic policy, and cereals remain the sector where expanding output and storage capacity weighs most heavily on the import bill.

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