Morocco’s farming sector is facing dim prospects if there is no rainfall this winter, agriculture minister Ahmed El Bouari said. The current farming season has received insufficient rainfall, 53% less compared to the average of the last 30 years, El Bouari said. Only the Loukous region in northwestern Morocco, or 25% of all Moroccan pasture […]
The Moroccan Royal Navy seized on Thursday over 500 kg of chira off Tangiers, a military source said. The navy’s coastguard spotted a suspicious inflatable boat off Tangiers, in the early hours of Thursday and succeeded, in collaboration with a surveillance unit of the Royal Armed Forces, to foil the trafficking operation, the source said. […]
A flooding that hit the main farming region of Podor in eastern Senegal is threatening the country’s food security. The flooding of the Senegal river destroyed farmlands in Podor, which supplies about 46% of the country’s onion needs and disrupted the ploughing and sowing season. For more than a month, vast areas have remained drowned […]
