ALGERIA: LAND DISTRIBUTED TO FARM WORKERS AS AGRICULTURAL NATIONALISATION CONTINUES.

Record ID: 574548

  • Title: ALGERIA: LAND DISTRIBUTED TO FARM WORKERS AS AGRICULTURAL NATIONALISATION CONTINUES.
  • Date: 12th August 1972
  • Summary: 1. GV EXT. - People arriving for ceremony 0.05 2. SV Banner across road 0.13 3. TGV People assembled 0.16 4. CU and SV Musicians and dancers (5 shots) 0.35 5. SV Colonel Hoffman arrives (2 shots) 0.43 6. SV Land recipients line up 0.47 7. SCU PAN FROM documents on table to Col.Hoffman distributing them 0.53 8. CU Old man watches as other documents handed out (3 shots) 1.04 Initials OS/1501 OS/1515 Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 27th August 1972 13:00
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  • Location: BOU ISMAIL, NEAR ALGIERS, ALGERIA
  • Country: Algeria
  • Reuters ID: LVA6BWV9QRUIBY0I1O4D5WGTAZYF
  • Story Text: In Algiers, the distribution of land to farm-workers is proceeding rapidly under the government's "agricultural revolution".

    On Friday (12 August), the Wali (Prefect) of Algiers, Colonel Slimane Hoffman, gave land titles to 233 fellaheen (farm workers), who live near Bou Ismail, about 28 miles (45 km) from Algiers.

    The fellaheen are grouped into co-operatives to work the land which is often taken from the estates of former French settlers.

    State farm lands account for more than 75 per cent of Algeria's agricultural production.
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