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$397 million in agricultural products and agri-food industries in 2023
Non-hydrocarbon exports
The Director of Monitoring and Promotion of Trade at the Ministry of Trade and Export Promotion, Farah Mekideche, discussed yesterday Sunday in Algiers the national policy of promoting exports within the framework of the 2020-2030 vision.
“Algeria has achieved 397 million dollars in exports from a number of promising sectors in the fields of agriculture and agri-food products (pasta, beverages, biscuits and sauces),” she said, thanks, she added, to the new national policy of investment support. In particular, the support system for investors which grants them advantages and facilities including taxation, project financing, land and customs rules.
Speaking on the airwaves of Channel I of the National Radio, where she was the guest of the program ”Morning Guest”, Farah Mekideche highlighted the President of the Republic’s Prize for the best exporter which aims to reward the best exporters, in the different sectors of production and services, selected by a jury composed of ministerial departments and institutions related to the promotion of exports, to boost economic activity, particularly in the agricultural, industrial and service sectors.
“The Ministry of Trade and Export Promotion is currently working on a thoughtful vision in collaboration with a multi-sectoral committee to support this promising dynamic in the areas of agriculture and processing which are experiencing greater growth and are closer to meeting the needs of the national market, thus offering the opportunity to direct part of these products towards foreign markets, especially the African continent,” she continued.
There are, she noted, many positive indicators that strengthen confidence and optimism about the ability of the Algerian institution to reverse the traditional equation based on imports and turn more towards export. Citing construction materials and cement and concrete reinforcing bars which today constitute a promising sector. In particular, observed the director of monitoring and promotion of trade at the Ministry of Commerce, with the launch of the mega project of ”Gara Djebilet” which will make Algeria a leading country in the field of production and export of iron and its derivatives.
We are also working, continued Farah Mekideche, to support and assist promising sectors, including services, tourism and mining, as they are important tributaries of the national economy, according to a dynamic that takes into account the national trend to reach 29 billion dollars in non-hydrocarbon exports per year by 2030.
“We are optimistic about the ability of Algerian institutions to achieve this goal, particularly in light of the investment policy and incentives granted to producers and industrialists in recent years, as well as within the framework of the policy of rationalizing imports, which has begun to bear fruit by reaching the national growth rate of 2.4%, which is a satisfactory and remarkable rate,” added the guest of the program “Invité du matin” on Channel I of the National Radio.
Speaking during a presentation he made to the President of the Republic, Abdelmadjid Tebboune, who chaired, at the Palais des Expositions (Pins-Maritimes in Algiers), the opening ceremony of the 55th edition of the Algiers International Fair (FIA), at the end of June, the Minister of Trade and Export Promotion, Tayeb Zitouni indicated that the first results of the national export promotion policy within the framework of the 2020-2030 vision, demonstrated that several industrial sectors had obtained very positive results in production and export, with forecasts that Algerian non-hydrocarbon exports will reach 29 billion USD by 2030.
Rabah Mokhtari