Moroccan Minister of Agriculture Ahmed Al -Bouari announced that the current agriculture season witnessed weak rainfall compared to its rate during the past three decades.
The drought that strikes Morocco for the sixth year has become one of the most important challenges facing the agricultural sector, which represents the domestic product, as it is a major source of 40% of the country’s employment, according to the Ministry of Agriculture statistics.
To confront this situation, Al -Bouari said – in a speech during the meeting of the government council on Thursday evening – that “the ministry took a series of measures and measures to support the farmers and keep them in, especially the provision and support of seeds chosen for autumn grains by about 130 thousand tons, and to provide fertilizers and support them with about 200 thousand tons.” .
The Moroccan minister added that preparing a comprehensive program to support the animal production sector “includes nutrition by providing subsidized feed for breeders, technical frameworks to improve the productivity of sheep and goats in the medium term, animal health, and solidarity agriculture directed towards livestock, while supporting female preservation for reshaping The herd.
Weak fall
The rain rate in Morocco is 349 millimeters in normal years, but in 2024 it recorded about 104 millimeters, according to the Ministry of Agriculture.
According to the Ministry’s statistics, the rain rate in Morocco reached 134 millimeters during 2023, 260 during 2022, and 249 during 2021.
Agriculture in Morocco is the backbone of the economy due to its great contribution to growth, and the connection of various sectors in it, especially the food industries from which a large part is exported.
In April of last year, the Ministry of Agriculture expected that Morocco would lose 20% of the cultivated areas in 2024 due to drought.
Last season, the cultivated area was 2.5 million hectares, compared to 4 million hectares registered in normal years.
Growth expectations
Last month, the High Commissioner for Planning in Morocco expected the country’s GDP growth in the country 3.8% during the current year 2025.
The delegate (the official body in charge of the statistics) said – in a report – that the expectations of the growth of the local economy are due to agricultural growth 4.1%, and the non -agricultural sectors 3.6%.
She pointed out that this expectation comes because of the current agricultural season, which is characterized by more appropriate climate conditions than those he knew last season, during which he recorded a great deficit in rainfall.
