DETERMINANTS OF THE STRATEGIES ADOPTED BY COMPANIES EXPORTING DATES IN ALGERIA: STATE OF BISKRA AS A CASE STUDY

Abstract

The development of the agricultural sector in Algeria is a major challenge at the economic, public and social level. A considerable potential of agricultural products that can be exploited to achieve non-hydrocarbon exports. The date sector has an enormous natural potential which appears through a large area of plantations encompassing millions of palm trees which produce a multitude of varieties of dates. In terms of export earnings, dates are the leading agricultural product exported by the country. In this regard, the public authorities have given special attention to this sector, regarding to its fragility and its importance as an alternative source of currency. However, the export of dates in Algeria is experiencing many difficulties related to climatic, technical and social conditions of production and also to the institutional and administrative environment of the exporting company. The purpose of this work is to identify the determinants of export strategies and the constraints that hinder the export of dates through an exhaustive survey in the wilaya of Biskra. Fieldwork was conducted with 32 companies. The exploitation of the results of the survey allowed us to identify the main constraints. The most important is institutional, highlighting a lack of financial and organizational support for exporting companies.

Keywords

• algeria
• sector
• production
• export strategy
• obstacles