The contradiction between Paytas’s statements and actuality within the agricultural sector in Morocco

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The assertion of the Minister Delegate to the Prime Minister, in control of relations with Parliament, and the official spokesman for the federal government, Mustafa Paytas, relating to the drought wave that Morocco is experiencing for the third yr in a row, sparked widespread controversy over the contradiction between official statements and the precise actuality.

The minister confirmed that “Morocco goes by way of a extreme drought for the third yr in a row, which has value loads of assets for agricultural manufacturing and the availability of consuming water and irrigation.”

On the identical time, current information point out that Morocco is on the prime of the exporters of greens and fruits to European Union international locations.

The worth of whole Moroccan exports on this regard amounted to greater than 1.8 billion euros as of September final yr, in keeping with what was reported by the “Associations of Producers and Exporters of Greens, Fruits, Flowers and Reside Crops” in Spain (FEPEX), primarily based on information collected by the affiliated statistics company. of the European Union “Eurostat”.

This contradiction raises many questions on how Morocco will deal with the extreme drought wave in mild of reaching report numbers within the export of greens and fruits. It’s noteworthy that almost all of those agricultural merchandise rely closely on the depletion of water assets, which raises the priority of residents who are suffering from the disaster of excessive costs and lack of water assets.

On the one hand, the federal government stresses the necessity to acknowledge the challenges dealing with the agricultural sector on account of drought, and then once more, it’s famous that export-oriented agricultural manufacturing continues to flourish, elevating doubts regarding how water assets and nationwide priorities are managed.

The contradiction between Minister Paytas’s statements and the fact of export displays an actual downside in balancing agricultural and commerce insurance policies with the wants of native residents.

Whereas the federal government continues to help the export sector to generate monetary revenues, residents endure from excessive costs of meals merchandise and water shortage.

Abdullah Ben Issa to Agadir 24