Italy and Algeria sign agreement on high-tech regenerative agriculture

As part of the Mattei Plan for Africa and following President of the Council of Ministers Giorgia Meloni’s bilateral meeting with the President of the People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria, Abdelmadjid Tebboune, in the margins of the G7 Summit in Puglia, an agreement on high-tech regenerative agriculture was signed in Algiers today, in the presence of the respective Agriculture Ministers, Francesco Lollobrigida and Youcef Cherfa.

The agreement involves the Algerian government providing a strategic concession for 36,000 hectares of land, which the company Bonifiche Ferraresi S.p.A. will reclaim for agricultural use, creating an entire production chain. Work will begin already in 2024, with the construction of wells and an initial sowing of cereals.

This agreement represents the largest investment in sustainable agriculture Italy has ever made in North Africa, where the Italian Government is committed to this sector through wide-ranging initiatives involving several areas and nations along the southern shores of the Mediterranean.