Heba Press / Rabat
Prime Minister Aziz Akhannouch chaired a meeting today, Thursday in Rabat with stakeholders in the agricultural production sectors, during which professionals in the sector presented priority measures to revive the agricultural sector and ensure market supplies, with a view to starting the 2024-2025 campaign. agricultural season, after five consecutive years of severe drought which affected all components of the agricultural sector.
A press release specifies that these measures aim to contribute to the fall in prices of agricultural products, as well as to protect and restructure livestock. In addition to strengthening the resilience of the agricultural sector in the face of an unfavorable global context characterized by climate change and water scarcity.
The same communication indicates that the meeting constituted an opportunity to study various mechanisms capable of contributing to achieving the desired balance in animal chains, such as milk, red meat and poultry, as well as in vegetable chains, such as olives. , citrus fruits, date palms. , early vegetables, sugar plants, rice and seeds.
Aziz Akhannouch stressed that the government will strengthen its support for various professionals in the agricultural production sectors, with the aim of controlling and improving the performance of these sectors, on the basis of optimal management of inputs and production factors, emphasizing that the government will continue, in application of the High Royal Directives, to mobilize structured investments aimed at strengthening the capacity of adaptation of the agricultural sector to the repercussions of the drought, by taking a certain number of measures to gradually restore the balance of the different production chains.
According to the same source, the government will ensure the implementation of various urgent measures which will contribute to reducing the prices of agricultural products, in order to preserve the purchasing power of citizens, as well as to ensure a continuous and adequate supply. to the population. national markets.
In May 2023, the government signed 19 contracts for a new generation program aimed at developing and modernizing agricultural production sectors, as part of the implementation of the “Green Generation” strategy, for a total amount exceeding 110 billion of dirhams over 10 years, including more than 42 billion dirhams. billion dirhams as a State contribution as part of the “Green Generation” strategy.
It should be noted that the meeting took place in the presence of Mohammed Seddiqi, Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries, Rural Development, Water and Forests, Fawzi Lakjaa, Minister Delegate in charge of the Budget, Noureddine Bensouda, General Treasurer of the Kingdom, Mohammed Al-Kharmoudi, Director of State Property, and Abdel Latif Al-Omrani, Director General of the Department of Customs and Indirect Taxes, Mohamed Fekrat, Chairman of the Collective Board of Directors of Crédit Agricole, and Abdallah Al -Janati, Managing Director of Crédit Agricole. the National Food Safety Office; In addition to representatives of agricultural production sectors and professionals in the sector.
