Algeria is actively pursuing a new investment model to enhance its food security, strategically linking agricultural production with industrial processing. This initiative aims to value local resources, reduce the national import bill, increase added value within the economy, and create sustainable wealth beyond hydrocarbons. Central to this economic transformation is the southern region, where the Tafadis project, a subsidiary of Madar Holding Group, is leading an integrated national production chain.<\/p>\n
The Tafadis project is a pivotal example of this strategy, centered on cultivating sugar beet and processing it locally into sugar, animal feed, and alcohol for industrial and medical uses. This comprehensive project is transforming vast desert areas into an expansive industrial hub that connects agricultural output with processing and markets. Initially, the project covers an operational area of 28,000 hectares, with a strategic future target to expand to 200,000 hectares. This substantial scale reflects Algeria's commitment to self-sufficiency and its ambition to transition from subsistence farming to integrated economic poles in the South.<\/p>\n
Economically, the project is expected to generate over 5,000 direct and indirect jobs across its various stages, encompassing agriculture, irrigation, maintenance, harvesting, transport, storage, and industrial processing. According to Dr. Ahmed Al-Haidousi, an economic expert, Tafadis's integrated nature allows for maximum added value from raw materials, reducing the need for external processing and re-importation of finished products. The successful pilot phase, which yielded 17,000 quintals of durum wheat from 30 irrigation pivots between January and May 2026, serves as an initial positive indicator for utilizing these vast areas with modern irrigation techniques for strategic crops. The project is poised to stabilize domestic supply, reduce sugar imports, and contribute to decentralizing economic activity by fostering new growth poles, though its successful expansion will require precise water resource management, energy efficiency, and robust logistics infrastructure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Algeria is implementing a new agricultural investment model focused on achieving national food security through modernizing its agro-industrial sector, particularly in the southern regions. The Tafadis project exemplifies this strategy, aiming to establish integrated production chains and significantly reduce import reliance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":69332,"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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-algeria"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69333","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=69333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/69332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}