{"id":59281,"date":"2026-04-24T10:45:47","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T09:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=59281"},"modified":"2026-04-24T10:45:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T09:45:47","slug":"algerias-bladna-algerie-project-africas-largest-milk-production-venture-worth-3-5-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=59281","title":{"rendered":"Algeria&#8217;s &#8216;Bladna Algerie&#8217; Project: Africa&#8217;s Largest Milk Production Venture Worth $3.5 Billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Algeria&#8217;s Minister of Agriculture, Rural Development and Fisheries, Yassine Walid, has confirmed that the <strong>&#8216;Bladna Algerie&#8217;<\/strong> project stands as Africa&#8217;s largest milk production initiative, representing a massive investment of <strong>$3.5 billion<\/strong> spanning 117,000 hectares in Adrar.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking exclusively to <strong>dzwatch<\/strong> during the signing of the project&#8217;s second package of contracts, the minister stated the project aims to cover <strong>50% of Algeria&#8217;s milk needs<\/strong>, producing 200,000 tons of milk powder while mobilizing 270,000 dairy cows.<\/p>\n<p>The minister emphasized the project&#8217;s transformative scope, noting it will <strong>create 5,000 jobs<\/strong> and direct 95,000 cattle toward Algeria&#8217;s red meat market.<\/p>\n<p>The project will also require the installation of <strong>1,400 pivot irrigation systems<\/strong>, with 700 units deployed in the first phase alone, reinforcing Algeria&#8217;s determination to achieve food sovereignty and lead agricultural development across the African continent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Algeria&#8217;s Minister of Agriculture, Rural Development and Fisheries, Yassine Walid, has confirmed that the &#8216;Bladna Algerie&#8217; project stands as Africa&#8217;s largest milk production initiative, representing a massive investment of $3.5 billion spanning 117,000 hectares in Adrar. Speaking exclusively to dzwatch during the signing of the project&#8217;s second package of contracts, the minister stated the project &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59280,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economie-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/59280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}