President Abdelmadjid Tebboune Chairs Council of Ministers Meeting Dedicated to the Agriculture Sector

The President of the Republic, Mr. Abdelmadjid Tebboune, Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, Minister of National Defense, chaired today a meeting of the Council of Ministers dedicated to examining a presentation on the current state and prospects of the Agriculture, Rural Development, and Fisheries sector, as scheduled during the Council of Ministers meeting held on Sunday, October 4, 2026.

Following the presentation of the agenda and the Prime Minister's briefing on government activities over the past weeks, the President of the Republic issued the following instructions, orders, and directives:

Regarding the Agriculture Sector:

Following an in-depth presentation by the Minister of Agriculture, which the President of the Republic commended, he directed as follows:

1. Developing a new plan for the local organization of agriculture to ensure greater transparency and a more accurate, modern census.

2. Establishing a dedicated office for pulses (dry legumes), while keeping cereals under the jurisdiction of the Algerian Interprofessional Office of Cereals (OAIC).

3. Immediately creating a dedicated statistics department covering all activities and professions affiliated with the agricultural sector, aiming to eliminate all forms of delay in supplying the national market with consumer goods, particularly staples.

4. The President ordered the Minister of Agriculture to prepare a task-allocation plan assigning the Fisheries sector to a Minister Delegate to the Minister of Agriculture, and the Forestry sector to a Secretary of State in charge of Forests to the Minister of Agriculture.

5. Preparing, starting this November, for the upcoming harvest season by securing the necessary mechanization, in both quantity and quality, across all production areas, following the implementation of the previous Council of Ministers' decision regarding the establishment of mechanization cooperatives.

6. The President ordered a ban on leaving agricultural lands idle and unexploited based on erroneous pretexts that bear no relation to modern, contemporary agriculture.

7. The necessity of combating all forms of hoarding and withholding of agricultural production by farmers, given that the State has widely opened the door to purchasing strategic agricultural crops at the best prices.

8. Ordering a total ban on the use of maize production as green fodder for livestock feed in Algeria, as this practice has had no positive impact whatsoever on meat production or meeting national market demand, and has instead caused an acute shortage of grain maize.

9. Combating all forms of fraud in the agricultural sector, from production to distribution and supply.

10. Ordering a review of the operation, organization, and effectiveness of the roles of companies affiliated with the agricultural sector.

11. The President ordered the Minister of Agriculture to prepare a special presentation, to be delivered again before the Council of Ministers, on the progress made in implementing these recommendations and the impact of enforcing the provisions of the Agricultural Orientation Law.

General Directives:

The President of the Republic ordered members of the government to integrate the statistics of their ministerial departments into the systems of the national digital platform of the High Commission for Digitization.
The President of the Republic ordered multiplying inspection laboratories across ports and airports—rather than relying on only two laboratories as is currently the case—to protect public health, commencing on a priority basis at the busiest ports, such as Oran, Mostaganem, Ghazaouet, Jijel, and Annaba.
He ordered the Minister of Justice that, as soon as the inspection laboratories are established, the legal framework must be reinforced with maximum penalties whenever deliberate involvement is proven in bringing substances and products that threaten public health into the country through airports, ports, and land borders.
The President called upon the government to keep its services on round-the-clock alert, each within its jurisdiction and position, and to engage forcefully in protecting the security and health of our citizens from any imported materials posing a public hazard.

The Council of Ministers concluded its session by approving decrees regarding appointments to and terminations of senior state positions.