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Morocco’s OCP Group teams up with WB to unlock Africa’s potential in global food security

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Morocco’s Phosphate Group (OCP) and the World Bank agreed on Wednesday in Marrakesh to strengthen cooperation ties and programs benefitting five million farmers in Benin, Guinea, Mali, and Togo, covering 10 million hectares. The agreement was inked by OCP CEO Mostafa Terrab and WB Vice-Pdt.for Central Africa Ousmane Diagana during the ongoing WB-IMF Annual meetings […]
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Africa holds key to global food security, OCP chief tells FT

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Africa holds the key to global food security because it has 60% of the world’s unused arable land, chairman and CEO of Morocco’s OCP Group, Mostafa Terrab, told the Financial Times. The Financial Times pointed out in its Wednesday issue that in the wake of the war in Ukraine and amid fears about the continent’s […]
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Morocco’s OCP poised to play greater role in global food security

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Morocco’s phosphates producer OCP plans to increase its fertilizers output to 11.9 million tons this year, compared with 10.8 million tons last year, as it sees a growing demand from India, the Americas and Africa at a context of market turbulences and higher crop nutrient prices. Russia said it would not export its fertilizers and […]
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On Morocco’s increasing role in global food security

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There is no exaggeration in saying that Morocco will play an increasingly important role in the world’s food security as the country sits on the globe’s largest phosphates deposits, key to the fertilizers’ industry. Modern agriculture has become more than ever dependent on phosphorus derived from phosphate rock, a non-renewable resource. Morocco as the country […]