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Left: Tiger from Alla Kacimi’s breeding, right: H’Mama from Larbi Mahfoud’s breeding and Alla Kacimi’s kennel.

After the colonial era 1962 onwards It should be noted that town planning also
A great change in Algerian society, played against the preservation of the
especially after the adoption of socialism in breed by the choice of multi-floor buildings
1963, led to a great rural exodus to the big as a model of housing in Algeria, so that
cities and the abandonment of pastoral life. there was no space to adopt this breed

which requires yards of minimally 100m2
In 1974, the agrarian revolution killed the (building in a steppe region of Boughazoul).
agricultural fabric by making the peasants
employees of cooperatives which led to an As an anecdote we speak of peasants who
immediate fall in agriculture, pushed the housed the goats on the balconies.
rest of the peasants to join the big cities.

In parallel to this, the policy of the
industrialization of the country by the
creation of industrial zones around the big
cities and the massive recruitment emptied
the Algerian Rif. Consequently there was a
fall in the number of breeders.