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Algeria signed a $3.5 billion deal with Qatar’s largest dairy producer Baladna on Wednesday, establishing a vast cattle-breeding farm for powdered milk, a highly sought-after product in the North African country. With an expected yield of 200,000 tonnes of powdered milk per year, the project would help meet 50 percent of national demand for the product, according to reports. The project, which covers an area of 170,000 hectares in the Adrar province, includes a farm for growing cattle feed, “a farm for cattle and producing milk and meat, and a factory for the production of powdered milk,” the …

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