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Agriculture remains a critical sector for the Moroccan economy. Given its major role in providing employment and disposable income, agriculture can impact the country’s annual GDP growth rates in a way that few other sectors can. The past decade has seen the implementation of the Green Morocco Plan (Plan Maroc Vert, PMV), which was launched in 2008 to increase agricultural output, make the sector more competitive and increase its resilience to the threats posed by climate change.
The PMV, along with an improvement of Morocco’s overall trade performance, has helped the sector progress with higher volumes of output and exports. However, water scarcity and desertification have become challenges to agricultural activity in many regions of the country. In addition, the prevalence of small-scale farming operations has made it difficult for certain segments of the farming population to modernise agricultural practices and expand.
Other aspects of the sector have seen palpable improvement. Irrigated land has increased significantly since the launch of the PMV. The sector has continued to attract foreign and domestic investment, and increase the amount of value added for the processing of agricultural goods. Cooperatives have made a deep impact on value chains and employment, and emerging product segments based on the country’s competitive advantages are showing potential to become valuable avenues for growth. More broadly, the development of the sector remains linked with overarching government goals of reducing rural migration into the kingdom’s cities through the improvement of socio-economic conditions across various agricultural regions.
