Potato at 100 dinars

The price of potato has taken the lift this weekend reaching 100 Dinars per kilogram. Price it had reached during the famous 2007 crisis, the equivalent of 01 Euro, proof that the promises made by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development in mid March, to lower the price to early April, were not respected.

• The promise of the Secretary General at the Ministry of Agriculture, Sid Ahmed Ferroukhi to lower the price of potatoes, which was then sold at 50 dinars per kilogram at the beginning of April have not been held since it is sold 100 DA per kilo, an increase of the price to 100% across all fruit and vegetables markets throughout the national territory.
  
  This surge in prices of potato, but also other agricultural products, comes at a time when more than 100,000 farmers have benefited from erasing their debts estimated at 4100 billion cents on instruction of the President of the Republic.
  
  It comes also at a time when leaders of the agricultural sector in the Departments of Ain Defla, Mostaganem and Adrar report an increase in production for this season.
  
  Benaïssa to Ennahar: The price will not fall before the end of April.
  
  According to the minister of agriculture, rain is the cause of rising prices of potatoes. Heavy rains that hit the regions where it is produced have prevented farmers from harvesting causing by an imbalance between supply and demand.
  
  The minister, in a statement to Ennahar, said that prices will remain high until the end of April.
  
  According to the Minister, the Ministry of Agriculture intends to exploit all the cold rooms which were at a standstill, for the storage of potatoes after harvest to ensure its availability and price maintenance.
  
  Ennahar / Habiba Mahmoudi
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