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Thursday 30 Apr 2015 - 11:09 Makkah mean time-11-7-1436
Cereal harvest (Google Image)
Rabat (IINA) – Moroccan Agriculture Minister Aziz Akhannouch expected that the cereal harvest to hit a record 11 million tons this year, Maghreb Arab Press (MAP) reported Wednesday.
“This campaign is exceptional on all levels, thanks to good rainfall, well distributed in space and time, in addition to good and effective use of inputs which reach 1.5 million quintals and optimization of mechanization,” he said at the opening of the annual agriculture fair in Meknes, in northern Morocco.
The harvest includes 5.5 million tons of soft wheat (50 percent), 3.2 million of barley (30 percent) and 2.2 million tons of durum wheat (20 percent).
In 2013-2014, the harvest hit 9.7 million tons, a 7.6 percent annual growth of the agricultural sector and a 34 percent increase in agro-food exports since 2008.
Agricultural GDP per capita also increased from around 48 percent in rural areas, reducing the percentage of the rural population suffering from hunger to 0.5 percent, Akhannouch added.
Morocco’s agricultural output rose by 12.5 percent in the first quarter of 2015, including an 8.8 percent increase in cereal production, according to the High Planning Authority (HCP).
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