Algeria: Fight Against Desertification - Treatment of Green Dam's Catchment Basins Is Priority

Bouira — The treatment of the catchment basins of the green dam remains the first priority as part of the relaunch of this project in Dirah (south of Bouira), underlined Saturday in Bouira (122 km east of Algiers) Minister of Agriculture, Rural Development and Fishing Abdeslam Chelghoum, on a working visit to this province.

"The treatment of the catchment basins is the ministry's priority as part of the revival of the green dam, a project which was stopped in the 1990s," said the minister on Dirah, where he planted some shrubs as part of the ceremony of the celebration of the World Day to Combat Desertification.

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