Town of Sig, city of olives

Sig is the city of the olive-tree par excellence. It is the capital of the “sigoise”, the prestigious olive of table. One counts there more than 200 olive confectioners, of which some are devoted to the activity since more than one half-century.

Cité des 350 residences on the way towards modernity?

The Management of the Town planning and the Construction (DUKE) of the wilaya of Mascara has been just concentrated on the major problems which make suffer the inhabitants from the city of the 350 residences, located in the commune of Sig (Mascara), to release a final solution with its many problems of elementary conveniences of the life.

Among these problems, the first is the drinking water shortage, which touches some 1,700 hearts placed in this urban unit, hardly lending to a life of most serene as regards conveniences of decent life. Indeed, it is question of initially carrying out a network of drinking water supply there, follow-up of a network of cleansing, in front of the extension risks of the MTH aiming this kind of populous zones, where the waste water is rejected into septic tanks, which never are asepticized even supervised and disinfected if necessary. In addition, a third project and not of least, will be devoted to this city to make it equip with public lighting, to avoid with the residents living the nightmare of the insecurity as of fallen the night, especially in wintry time and rainy. Thus, it is hoped that its inhabitants will finish some with the dissatisfaction of this fight for survival in an unhealthy, dark environment the night and where the drinking water is rarer.

Distribution of 26 buildings to the graduates without employment

This operation intervenes one month after that which related to the distribution of 47 other buildings in the same way standard, which changes to 73 the full number of buildings allotted to their recipients on a total quota of 284 buildings granted to the city of olives. These buildings established with the level of 4 sites through the city were allotted, according to the Members of the Commission, with young unemployed justifying of a professional qualification or graduates in certain liberal professions such of the doctors, pharmacists and lawyers, who will be able to thus begin their activities with a constraint in less. Let us note finally that for the graduates of the CFPA wishing to launch out in an activity, the recruitment of 2 apprentices remains an obligation.

To put an end to their clandestine demolition with Sig

Opening of a 5,000 chickens/day old slaughter-house

The many nuisances caused with the townsmen of olives by the clandestine demolition of the poultries, will be nothing any more from now on but one bad memory, after the opening of a slaughter-house specialized in this field north of the town of Sig. This building understands in addition to a cold storage, essential for the conservation of the white meats, all the equipment necessary to this activity. This project was conceived for the demolition and the cleaning of some 5,000 chickens per day.

An operation which will be supervised by a detached veterinary surgeon with residence by the subdivision of the agriculture (SDA) of will daïra of Sig. Thus will be guaranteed the freshness and the quality of the white meats marketing and that the citizens will be able to consume without danger. As regards the safeguard of the environment, which as each one knows can be impacted negatively by this kind of activity, the originator of the project envisages the discharge of water of rejection in a station of treatment located in the vicinity. However, such a receipt must encourage all the parts concerned to redouble efforts to fight the phenomenon of the clandestine demolition, which is practiced in all impunity in several districts of the city, like on the level even of the hangars of production of table fowls. After being bled in these inappropriate buildings, these chickens were delivered to stripped families, to proceed to their plumage and their cleaning, and that, far from any sanitary control and to the detriment of the health of the consumers. From where utility of such a project, which would deserve to be established in good of other big cities of same the wilaya.

Communes of again fed Chorfa and Sig

The respective communes of Chorfa and Sig, belonging to the wilaya of Mascara, like those of Ain Aden, Boudjebha and Mebtoul, in the wilaya of Sidi Bel-Abbès, were private of drinking water, lasting a whole week, this interruption occurring for suspicions of pollution to the dam Chorfa.

According to a person in charge of the services of Hydraulics of the wilaya, the situation was restored, by adding that the taking away carried out, one week ago, had revealed a strong copper sulfate concentration, probably coming from the agricultural fields or the tanneries of the area. Always according to the same source, of the films constituted themselves at water surface and required the intervention of the services of the national agency of stoppings (ANB) for the evacuation of these polluting films, which would have contributed to eliminate not less 160kg from fish living before in the known as stopping. This being, the inhabitants of the area would have appreciated well to be informed in advance, to make their provisions, in the event of new cuts, would be this to only protect itself from possible risks.

Haro on the potash excess in the conservation of olives

Certain olive producers of table use potash to accelerate their maceration and to be among the first to put them on the market, and this, to the detriment of the health of the fond of delicacies consumer of this kind of products.

Initiated by the ministry for the trade, a national caravan of sensitizing and prevention against food poisonings will enter in action, as of on July 7th, starting from Algiers. Within this framework, the DCP of the wilaya of Mascara was charged to accompany this caravan on the programmed spot of action.

Thus starting from July 9th, Tizi and Mascara city will be the starting points of this caravan called to furrow the territory of the wilaya, by punctuating its passage by interventions of proximity, in the direction of the citizen where that it is including in residence.

The question which remains posed is: “How to produce products of quality, while taking care of the profitability of its production and the traceability of its product until its consumption, by associating the retailers with the safeguarding of the health of the consumer of the foodstuff generally?”. Such is the concern of the persons in charge of the sector, who have to face dangerous drifts noted at certain “professionals” of the olive conservation.

The example is simple: certain olive producers of table use potash to accelerate their maceration and to be among the first to put them on the market. This kind of process would be practically generalized among industrialists of the field, but completely ignored by the consumers. It is enough for them however to hold between two fingers the suspectée olive, which leaves blackish traces on the fingers. Using the composition of the preparation of the meals, these chemical components must be made available of the consumer, to which is thus left the choice buy them or not, if they conceal dangerous counter-indications in his health condition. This being, how much olive canners can be prided to have analysis laboratories in their work places.

That goes without saying that not badly chemicals used with more or less harmful amounts with time, often escape control. To date, no descent was carried out by the local or regional laboratories, which are satisfied to take delivery of the taking away often brought back by laymen, instead of tackling the evil with the source

Oleiculture with Sig seems to lose of its productivity. During this season 2008, the production will be estimated at 30,000 quintals against 45,000 quintals the past exercise. A report which was drawn up to us by the president of the Association of the olive confectioners Elagag Hadj.

The 200 transformation units olive-growing, which employ 10,000 agents in full shift for 1,500 permanent, will be forced to reduce number of employees and the causes are numerous, according to the president of the association of the transformation units of olives. Starting with the price-cutting due mainly to the unfair competition caused by the clandestine introduction of the Moroccan product. Another factor which penalizes the olive confectioners is that of the VAT rate of 17%. Our interlocutor informs us that a file was given to the ministries and the competent authorities of the APN with an aim of re-examining this tax with the fall, with the image of the producers of olive oil which was lowered to 7%. A ground considered to be legitimate if one wants to preserve the two products and olive and the olive oil. Other constraints which are added to the disturbance of the olive-growing production are those related to the bad irrigation and the many diseases. The perimeter of olive-trees which border the 4,500 ha shows an imbalance in the quota reserved for the irrigation where the number of revolutions was limited to only one, of 4 million m3, instead of two turns. A quantity of water served during June by the dam Chorfa and of which the half is lost along the way towards the orchards following degradation of the network of irrigation which requires a total restoration of 140 km. As for diseases, our interlocutor announces us that 60% of park of olive groves is touched by various diseases which disturb of manner very sensitive production of olives, with image of cochineal (insect which attacks the sap), the scolyte (insect which digs radiant galleries between the branches, very harmful on the buds). Associations of the olive confectioners request the services of the DSA (direction of the Agricultural services) to come to assist the small fellahs within the framework of the fight against these diseases. It is noted that the production of Sig feeds the whole of the national market. As for the promotion of export, our interlocutor informs us that export is subordinated to a qualification of the companies where one fifty confectioners were selected to undergo a test of selection within the framework of the national program of the Funds of upgrade of companies (FNMNE). For recall, qualities of olives of the area of Sig are named Sigoise and Siviane.

New equipment for the hospital Inaugurated in 1999, the service of functional rehabilitation of the hospital public corporation of Sig soon will profit from new capable equipment to enable him to discharge its mission suitably. A first operation of the kind, according to the director from this establishment who declared that service accommodates 100 patients coming from all daily the wilaya as well as areas bordering, among which 60% are women, the remainder made up children and 20% men. These patients suffer from various handicaps on the level of their members, caused mainly by crises of arterial hypertension which touch 60% of them. The others present after-effects due to the wounds undergone in victims of circulation. The assumption of responsibility of these patients is ensured by three ancillary medical agents and a doctor specialized in functional rehabilitation, with the encouragements of the new director who promised to get busy to improve the work conditions of the medical team and stay of the patients. Promises what could be carried out with the next acquisition of new equipment, which constitutes one of the priorities for this service.

An unfair competition seems to strike since step badly time the 200 owners of the olive canning facilities, activating within the town of Sig, distant of 52km east of Oran.

Marking the Day of the environment, the town of Sig sheltered the ceremonies of this environmental event.

Also, this is the representative of the group Ciba Orascom of the cement factory which, in its intervention, reassured much on the effects on the environment of the factory in question, while affirming that the latter is equipped with machines sophisticated to fight against pollution, in particular the filters and that all the installations meet the standards of environmental protection.

Also, on this occasion, the speaker it invited the population to return visit to this factory, as it made share that virgin spaces, which are near the latter, will be planted trees.

It is an good initiative, therefore, for the safeguarding of nature and its protection and to mitigate, thus, while safeguarding the environmental shutter of this area with this operation of timbering.

Large satisfaction Sunday with Sig
250 residences LSP given to their purchasers

The day of last Sunday is to be marked of a white stone for the 250 happy purchasers of residences LSP, a dream which they ended up concretizing in the city of olives.

According to certain sources close to the direction of the agricultural services, the next harvest of olives is promising. The olive marketing year which will be carried out on the level of the plain of Sig, which has approximately 3,800 hectares of olive-trees, will be more than satisfactory. This enthusiasm is justified by the granting with this area by the Office of Irrigated Perimeters more than 4 million cubic meters of water of irrigation. A quantity considered to be sufficient by the fellahs for booster rocket the olive-growing production which was, according to them, already appreciable the last year, at the time which 120,000 quintals were garnered. It is necessary to recall that more than one third of the olive groves was renovated grace the plantation of some 27,000 new shrubs planted since 2005.

At a few weeks of the fence of the vaccination campaign of the livestock envisaged on June 30th, many stockbreeders of the communes of Sig and Oggaz are anxious for the health of their bovines which were not vaccinated yet, because of the shortage of vaccine against the rage, and this, in spite of the fact that this countryside began it there more than one month.

A concern which the interested parties justify owing to the fact that this epidemic is declared easily during the period of the hot summer dayss, which appears already on the horizon. Fortunately for these stockbreeders, other vaccinations proceed normally and already touched 15,853 heads of sheep in these two communes, which were vaccinated against clavelée, pertaining to 97 stockbreeders, whereas in parallel 247 sheep only pertaining to 26 stockbreeders underwent vaccination against the foot and mouth disease. For recall, the communes of the daïrate of Sig and Oggaz are famous to contain most of the livestock through the wilaya of Mascara, particularly the milch cows. From where, according to certain stockbreeders, need for the departments concerned for making so that this operation is done in an optimal way.

Inter-colleges: Finale enters the college Ahmed Zabana de Sig and the college Djamel Eddine de Mascara.

Under the high patronage of Mr. the wali, Larbi Merzoug, and in the guise of M.Abdelghani Barakat, director of the Education of the wilaya of Mascara, and at the time of the national day of the student, an imposing festival was organized at the house of culture Abi Ras Enassiri, in honor of finalists of inter colleges, in collaboration with the regional radio of Mascara, which made all its efforts for the diffusion of all the meetings which are programmed since December 3rd, 2007.
Indeed, after five months of scientific competition, the finalists, namely the college Djamel Eddine de Mascara and the college Ahmed Zabana de Sig, were with go Monday for the final classification of the three first.
After two hours of contest, the results were as follows: college Djameleddine 61 points and college Ahmed Zabana 57.

The Safety of will daïra of Sig, in collaboration with the Association of first aid “S.O.S Enadjda”, one day of sensitizing organized on the prevention of road accidents. It is the Recreational center scientists (CLS) which sheltered this demonstration whose importance is hardly to show. To touch the various layers of the population, the organizers used the vectors of information. Indeed, the pupils of the three cycles (primary education, means and secondary) took part in this go. They were interested by the explanations like by a video projection of documentary on the plague of the road accidents.