Morocco and Algeria to boost agriculture cooperation

The Algerian Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Said Barkat, has recently arrived for a three-day visit to Morocco following an invitation from his Moroccan peer, Mohand Laenser. The Algerian minister said that there are a number of factors, which encourage the consolidation of Moroccan-Algerian cooperation in the field of agriculture and that agriculture and such cooperation might largely benefit both countries.

<i>MAP</i> reports that one of the major problems to which the Algerian minister pointed out was the problem of draught, which strikes all countries in the Maghreb.