Farming fish in the desert might sound counterintuitive but Algeria hopes to tap the huge aquifers beneath the Sahara to feed its growing population TOUGGOURT, Algeria, May 20 (Thomson Reuters ...

EL OUED, Algeria— Salim Ghrassia graduated with a statistics degree five years ago but opted for a rather different career: joining Algeria's push to farm the Sahara desert. "I saw the agricultural ...

Representatives of Belarusian industrial enterprises are in Algiers discussing machinery supplies and establishment of joint ventures. Among them is Vladimir Daineko, Deputy Director General for ...

SIDI RACHED, Algeria - At Ahmed Bekhi's cereal farm outside Algiers, there are clear signs of Algeria's campaign to increase food production to help curb billions of dollars in imports and offset a ...

Ibtissem Mahtout and Amira Messous pick fresh strawberries and tomatoes on the eco-friendly smallholding the two women are working near Algiers, a pioneering initiative in Algeria's male-dominated ...

EL OUED, Algeria Salim Ghrassia graduated with a statistics degree five years ago but opted for a rather different career: joining Algeria’s push to farm the Sahara desert. “I saw the agricultural ...

PARIS (Reuters) - A tender by Algeria to sell barley abroad, in what would be the country's first grain exports in 40 years, should be concluded early next month, Agriculture Minister Rachid Benaissa ...

ALGIERS — Weeks before his reelection bid, Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika announced Saturday that the government would cancel hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of debt owed by farmers ...

PARIS, Oct 7 (Reuters) - Algeria has reported an outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu on a poultry farm in the northern part of the country, the Paris-based World Organisation for Animal Health ...