التنمية الريفية في شمال الشرق الجزائري عوائق و آفاق.

Abstract

The present study purports to analyze the strategy of developing and reviving rural areas through economic activities, valorization of natural resources and the establishment of new relations between public and private sectors. The stage of decentralized administration has been concretized in local rural developmental projects based on ascending cooperative integrative endeavor and agricultural/rural renovation aiming at a new governance of the agricultural and rural sector whereby the role of the state is reinforced to fulfill its responsibility with more efficiency for the benefit of all intervening actors. Since 2000, Algeria has adopted two separate policies towards to the rural area and the agricultural development. Yet, these policies were soon followed by a new policy of rural and agricultural renovation based essentially on the adoption of efficiency contracts whereby those in charge can evaluate more easily the results of implementing such policies in rural and agricultural development. The results of the present study, which has been carried out over many years in the domain of agricultural development, prove to be essentially good and they translated by the quantities and levels of production and profitability rates. An important point need to be raised here, which is the duplication of this experience of local projects of rural development in this domain under a different appellation, that of integrative projects, by involving more people and augmenting the number of activities in the projects. However, we notice in this respect, a lower rate of achievement, in addition to the nature of the activities, which gave an opaque vision of the aims behind such projects. Moreover, we also notice the clear absence of the local authorities (the municipality and the province) which is translated by their poor participation in these projects (no more than 15% in rural municipalities in the province of Skikda, and no more than 10% in the rural municipalities in the province of Oum El Bouaghi). This proves the inefficiency of the strategy in matter of rural development as proved by the fact that these regions are still classified, five years later, as gray areas.