he U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has selected Morocco as one of seven countries to receive a new five-year award under its Food for Progress program, the U.S. Embassy in Morocco announced on Friday, October 9. The kingdom will receive up to 33.1 million dollars to strengthen food safety and the livestock sector. The mechanism is an unusual one: the project will be funded by the sale of 33,000 metric tons of U.S.-grown soybean meal and wheat, with implementation entrusted to Counterpart International, and it is expected to benefit about five thousand people.
Morocco had been on the list since April, one of seven countries the USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service named as priorities for fiscal year 2026, alongside Bangladesh, Ecuador and the Philippines among others. The project’s timeline and the split between its components have not yet been specified. The embassy framed the announcement as part of the celebration of 250 years of friendship between the two countries; American soybeans and wheat will thus turn, once sold, into resources for a sector on which the Moroccan table depends.
Photo: Amine Charnoubi, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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