The Agricultural Sector and its Impact on Economic Growth in Algeria

This study came to shed light on the agricultural sector and how it can contribute, as a basic sector, to achieving economic growth rates and the extent of its response to the most important reforms and various forms of support provided to it, this study relied on a methodology based on combining quantitative and qualitative analysis in dealing with relevant data and statistics. In the agricultural sector, Algeria to achieve this methodology, the descriptive approach was adopted in this study, which concerned itself with describing the importance of the agricultural sector and its role in achieving economic growth, in addition to the most important measures taken towards it, while presenting a set of statistics, analyzing and interpreting them statistically, and searching for ways to develop this sector, and then carrying out With a standard study, it dealt with the search for the most important variables affecting agricultural production on the one hand and the impact of the elements of agricultural production on the elements of economic growth on the other hand. The study showed that the sector is still subject to climate change and the labor force’s aversion to it, In addition, there is a lack of a clear administrative system in this sector, we recorded the large difference in the volume of food and agricultural imports and food and agricultural exports, For example, the coverage rate of food exports for food imports did not exceed 6.2% during the study period.