Algeria seeks to increase durum wheat production

Although total wheat imports have increased in recent years, the Algerian government has set 2025 as the year to achieve self-sufficiency in durum wheat production and stop importing it, according to a recent USDA Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) report.

Youssef Chorfa, Algeria’s agriculture minister, announced in September that 52% of the country’s grain acreage in the 2024-25 marketing year will be devoted to durum wheat.

Algeria’s imports of durum wheat have risen sharply, from about 700,000 tons in 2019-20 to nearly 2 million tons last year, the report said.

Poor harvests and an emphasis on increasing grain stocks have led to a rise in wheat imports in recent years, FAS said.

The agency forecasts that Algeria, North Africa’s top wheat consumer, will import 9 million tons of food grain in the 2024-25 marketing year, down 400 tons from the previous year but above the five-year average. Because Algeria’s relatively hot temperatures are not conducive to growing bread wheat, production typically hovers around 3 million tons, well below domestic consumption, which is typically around 11.5 million tons.

The European Union, Algeria’s largest wheat supplier, supplied the North African country with nearly 4 million tons last year, about 65% of the total.

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