orocco’s Minister of Agriculture, Maritime Fisheries and Food Sovereignty, Khalid Hatimy, launched the 2026-2027 farming season on Saturday, November 7, in Sidi Hamadi, in the province of Fquih Ben Salah.
For autumn sowing, the ministry is mobilizing about 1.3 million quintals of certified cereal seed. A quintal of national seed is priced at 270 dirhams for soft wheat, 320 dirhams for durum wheat and 250 dirhams for barley.
The market will receive about 500,000 tons of phosphate fertilizer. Direct seeding is planned on 540,000 hectares, and multi-risk climate insurance is to cover nearly a million hectares of cereals, legumes and oilseeds.
On the livestock side, the herd rebuilding program encourages imports of heifers and breeding cows, while imports of cattle for slaughter will be cut back gradually.
The previous season, watered by abundant rain, yielded a cereal harvest estimated at nearly 90 million quintals. The sowing begun in Sidi Hamadi and the winter rains will tell whether the Kingdom can repeat that result.
Photo: Massalim, CC0.
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