Algeria: Major State support to go to water conservation and gene pool

ALGIERS- Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Rachid Benaissa said Sunday that the major State's support for agriculture sector in 2010 will go to water conservation and gene pool.

The minister, in a national radio broadcast, said the sector will benefit this year of 210 to 220 billion dinars for rural and agricultural revival and to support the activities relating to research and technical assistance. Not only our country has not an important Useful Agricultural Surface (UAS), but there is a water shortage according to experts, he added.

We cannot overcome such hindrances through the introduction of the technology relating to water conservation and the rational use of different inputs, or the introduction of technical methods to improve farmers and breeders' productivity, he stressed.