Wheat is the other battlefield in the French -Algerian crisis policy

After Algeria was the main buyer of French wheat for a long time, it seems that it has been avoiding importing pills from the previous colonial power, highlighting the diplomatic crisis between the two countries and a great loss in the revenue of French grain producers.

With this introduction, the Lacroix newspaper opened a report that is mentioned in the French -Algerian differences, which are not limited to the diplomatic dispute regarding the issue of the visa, but also extends to include the main port of grains in Europe.

The French newspaper – in a report by Remy Barbie – explained that Algeria’s imports of French wheat are expected to decrease to zero in 2025, note that France provided Algeria in 2018 with 5.4 million tons of grains, which is equivalent to 80 to 90% of its needs.

The trade has gradually declined between the two countries, and the head of the International Relations Committee of the “Antiririan” organization, Philip Hosel, said, “We have become unwanted people in Algeria.”

Lacrawa stated that it is the state institutions in Algeria that monopolize wheat purchases, and as a result, the actors in the French market were surprised in 2025, not to receive the invitation to provide bids from Algeria, despite sending them to all other usual exporters.

A commodity market expert says that Paris and Algeria “had been between them since independence, a long -term implicit agreement, we bought Algerian natural gas and Algeria bought French wheat, and this agreement has succeeded for 50 years.”

The geographical proximity between the two countries allowed the transportation of gas through the pipelines, and the French farmers benefited from increasing the nutritional needs of the population of Algeria, whose number has doubled 4 times after independence, and Algeria received “between 30 and 50% of French exports,” says Maxus Devilier, an analyst at Argus Media, specialized in goods.

But starting in 2020, this flow began with recession after the Algerian government’s decision to “amend its health specifications by increasing the acceptable limit of insects affected by insects, according to Maxus Devilier – to align its regulations with the specifications of the black sea wheat, and Russia has taken advantage of this opportunity, and became the main resource of Algeria.

Lakroa concluded that the producers of the French grain who achieved a good harvest in 2025, they find themselves today in front of tons of wheat, the Moroccan consumption cannot absorb them.