The first Moroccan seasonal workers were welcomed at Bastia-Poretta airport last Friday, followed by the second wave on Wednesday. They are not ordinary travelers or tourists, but are in Corsica to harvest and prune in the clementine fields of the Island of Beauty.
Tangier has been home to a wholesale fruit and vegetable market since this Saturday, October 10. It covers a total area of 11 hectares.
Corsican clementine producers have financed five flights to transport Moroccan seasonal workers. A special protocol was adopted by the French and Moroccan authorities and the prefecture of Haute-Corse in this health crisis period.
The supply of fruits and vegetables is strongly disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic and the involvement of intermediaries in the exemption granted to large retail stores. As a result, prices are experiencing an unprecedented increase.
Morocco will reach a production of 140,000 tons of olive oil according to the forecasts of the Spanish company "Juan Vilar" for the 2020-2021 agricultural season. It will thus be the fifth largest producer in the world.
With its ever-expanding green spaces, gardens and parks, Rabat City of Light is in growing need of water. Nearly 660 million DH have been planned as part of this program supervised by the company Rabat Region Development.
Morocco is ranked 28th in the world among the main producing countries of basic fruits. This statistic comes from data from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). But beyond that, the Kingdom is pursuing reforms in the sector.
The French justice system has ruled in favor of five former Moroccan agricultural workers. The Spanish temporary employment agency, Laboral Terra, which had posted them to France for the agricultural sector, was convicted on Tuesday, September 22, for various irregularities regarding wages and medical follow-up.
The Blue Lagoon (Merja Zerga) of Moulay Bousselham is the subject of a "rehabilitation" operation with the opening of an estuary, even though it is protected by an international convention that Morocco has ratified and is no longer part of the public maritime domain.
In an effort to significantly reduce the high number of illegal immigrants from Morocco, Portugal plans to grant work permits to Moroccans to allow them to work there legally.
A major agreement has been signed between the European Investment Bank and the Crédit Agricole du Maroc group (GCAM) to provide substantial support to Moroccan companies in the field of bio-economy and sustainable agriculture.
Fruit exports to the Russian market reached 1,900 tons and generated $13.7 million in the first half of 2020. Morocco thus confirms its position as Russia’s leading fruit supplier.