Madar (Nouakchott) - A workshop to share the results of an in-depth diagnosis of the agricultural sector strategy and of the 2025 national agricultural development programme opened on Friday, 13 November 2026 at the Tiguent administrative centre in the Mederdra department of Trarza, the Mauritanian News Agency (AMI) reported. It will also discuss the main orientations of the national agricultural investment and development plan for 2026-2031.
The workshop is organised by the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Sovereignty, through its directorate for planning, statistics, cooperation and monitoring and evaluation, in cooperation with the World Bank, under a project supporting development and innovation in the agricultural and agro-pastoral sector.
According to the same source, it aims to discuss the diagnosis, enrich the proposals and involve stakeholders in shaping a vision for the sector by setting investment priorities and programmes suited to the country's agricultural potential.
The ministry's secretary general said at the opening that the meeting comes "at a pivotal stage", as the national agricultural development programme ended in 2025, requiring a new phase of strategic planning based on assessing achievements and identifying challenges.
He said the sector has launched several initiatives and studies, including a strategy for developing the rice value chain, considered a priority, and called for the coming plan to be ambitious in its goals, realistic in its choices and implementable.
The opening was attended by the prefect of Mederdra, the head of the Tiguent administrative centre, ministry officials and agricultural experts.
