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Private daily brief · Algeria agri-food trade & policy

Algeria is rewriting what it buys, grows and permits. Read it first.

Akufi tracks the country's food-sovereignty drive every working day and turns it into short, sourced briefs on import rules, OAIC and ONAB tenders, dairy and livestock, Saharan investment, institutions and people. Independent of any authority. Public reporting combined with insight from a field network of agronomists, consultants and market operators, every item sourced.

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Akufi Daily22 Oct 2026

Grain & feed

OAIC tender closed 13 Oct: about 600,000 t of milling wheat at USD 326–326.5/t C&F, December shipment.

Source: UkrAgroConsult

Dairy & livestock

Baladna Adrar: milk-powder plant at 28% completion; 30,000 U.S. cows due from November.

Sources: Algérie Eco, TSA

Import rules

DGSV: operators importing cattle, poultry inputs and milk must file 2027 import programmes (PPI) by 31 Oct.

Source: Algérie Eco

Three items from a past issue. Full issues, the archive and the events calendar are for approved members.

Why it matters

The gap between target and outcome is the signal.

Whether a target holds or slips decides import volumes, tender timing and investment risk. Akufi reports both sides, every day, each attributed to its source.

The stated ambition

2025 as the last year of durum imports, 2026 for barleyGovernment goal, reported by CapMad
Durum self-sufficiency by 2027Date set by the agriculture minister in June 2024, per Milling MEA
One million hectares of Saharan land in concessionsODAS target, per TSA
Grain storage towards 6.4 Mt by 2026Shipbroker research, SSY

The measured reality

OAIC bought over 500,000 t of Canadian durum in Dec 2025 and 400,000 t in Apr 2026North Africa Post
Bread wheat is roughly 75–80% of wheat imports, and not the main target of the pushMiller Magazine
Regular milling-wheat tenders continue: about 600,000 t closed on 13 Oct 2026UkrAgroConsult

Coverage

Six fronts of the national strategy. One brief.

The whole system, not only grain. Opportunities by supplier origin and supply-and-demand data points run across every front.

Cereal sovereignty & storage

OAIC and ONAB tenders, harvest and collection, silo programmes, durum, barley and maize targets.

Dairy & livestock substitution

Saharan dairy projects, cattle and genetics imports, sanitary rules, milk-powder demand.

Saharan land & investment

ODAS concessions, crop-plan obligations, foreign partnerships, water constraints.

Price regulation & supply

Price caps and margins, importer probes, price-display enforcement.

Legal & regulatory framework

Agricultural orientation law, import licensing, Journal Officiel texts.

Markets, events & people

Fairs and a six-month events calendar, appointments and contacts, expert and research watch.

Who it serves

For organisations whose business depends on how fast Algeria substitutes imports, and in which products.

Exporters & traders

Soft wheat, milk powder, feed corn, soymeal, live cattle, meat, pulses, sugar, vegetable oil

Import-rule changes, tender patterns, licensing and sanitary requirements, early signals of closures or reopenings.

Input & technology suppliers

Seed, dairy genetics, irrigation, silos, machinery, fertiliser, cold chain

Project pipeline, ODAS concessions, procurement, and who decides at OAIC, ONAB, ODAS and the ministry.

Foreign investors & agro-industrial partners

Gulf and Turkish funds, multinational processors, project developers

Concession conditions, regulatory and water constraints, partner and project tracking.

Government & multilateral intelligence units

Agricultural attachés, trade-promotion agencies, FAO, development banks

A daily digest they can verify and cite, with links to the originals.

Algerian importers & processors

Millers, dairy processors, feed mills, private importers

A compact regulatory and market digest: price caps, PPI deadlines, licensing.

Analysts, banks & researchers

Commodity analysts, trade finance, dry-bulk shipping research, academics

Data points, demand signals and a six-month events calendar.

Where Akufi fits

Coverage, speed, neutrality.

Akufi complements the sources you already use. It adds the policy and project context around each tender, across every origin.

Existing source	Does well	Leaves open	What Akufi adds
Price reporters	Same-day tender prices and volumes	Policy, livestock, dairy, inputs, investment; costly seats	The policy and project context around the tender, at a fraction of the cost
Periodic government trade reports	Authoritative periodic analysis	Weeks between reports; written for one country's exporters	Daily continuity, neutral across all origins
Algerian media	Primary reporting and official statements	Scattered across outlets; local framing	One digest, filtered for trade relevance, linked to originals
Global agri press	Commodity and industry news	Algeria covered occasionally, mostly grain	Full-system coverage: grain, dairy, livestock, water, prices, people

Principles

Credibility is the product.

These rules are part of every issue, not an add-on. Each issue is reviewed by the editor before it is sent.

01Independence. No affiliation with any Algerian or foreign authority. No sponsored content in editorial items.
02Neutrality. Official targets sit beside measured outcomes. Claims are attributed, never endorsed; partisan sources are labelled.
03Sourcing. Every item links to its public original or is attributed, by role, to our field network. Nothing invented or reconstructed; anything unverified is flagged.
04Field network. Agronomists, consultants, veterinarians, traders and other practitioners add on-the-ground context that public reporting misses. Their input is labelled as field insight, cross-checked where possible, and never includes leaked tender data or confidential documents.
05Private distribution. Members are approved individually. Content is never published openly.

Membership

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2Editor reviewEach request is checked and approved individually.
3The brief, every working dayDelivered by email, reviewed before it is sent.
4Members' archivePast issues and the six-month events calendar, behind sign-in.

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