{"id":287402,"date":"2021-01-21T16:57:02","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T19:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=287402"},"modified":"2021-01-21T17:49:27","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T20:49:27","slug":"moroccos-agricultural-production-to-increase-in-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/moroccos-agricultural-production-to-increase-in-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Morocco\u2019s agricultural production to increase in 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S\u00e3o Paulo &#8211; Morocco\u2019s Ministry of Agriculture announced that the country\u2019s agricultural production is expected to increase in 2021. The Ministry said that the establishment of fall crops experienced good momentum towards the end of 2020, newspaper <em>Morocco World News <\/em>reported. <em>Pictured above, Moroccan picking saffron flowers in the Southwest region.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The period was marked by a predominance of mechanical tillage, which covered nearly 94% of the cultivated area. To date, the total area sown amount to 4.76 hectares, including 9% irrigated, dominated by cereals (86%), fodder (10%), and legumes (4%).<\/p>\n<p>The Ministry said that the area sown with fall cereals amounted to 4.1 million hectares on January 8, 2021 and should reach 4.3 million hectares at the end of the sowing period. The area is made up of 44% soft wheat, 34% barley, and 22%\u00a0 durum wheat, the ministry said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe pace of cereal sowing has accelerated to reach 3 million\u00a0 hectares of sowing in one month following the rainy period at the end of November and December,\u201d the statement said. The agriculture forecasts demonstrate the rapidity of intervention thanks to the improvement of mechanical capacities and the modernization of the national mechanical park.<\/p>\n<p>Fodder crops cover an area of 500,000 hectares, 35% of which is irrigated against 480000 hectares during the previous campaign, up 4%. Legumes cover 168,000 hectares, 6% of which is irrigated, against 171,000 hectares during the previous campaign on the same date, down 2%. The main cultivated species are peas, broad beans, lentils, field beans, among others.<\/p>\n<p>The forecasts are in line with several studies, showing that the 2020-2021 agriculture season will help Morocco\u2019s economy recover from the crisis due to COVID-19 and drought.<\/p>\n<p>The World Bank forecasts a 4% growth in Morocco\u2019s economy this year thanks to an increase in agricultural production. The past few weeks witnessed heavy rainfalls, which will help the agriculture season after drought in the 2019-2020 season.<\/p>\n<p>Morocco\u2019s High Commission for Planning (HCP) forecasts the country\u2019s gross domestic product (GDP) to record a 4.6% growth in 2021 compared to the 7% recession it saw in 2020. The HCP forecasts the unemployment rate to decline from 12.8% in 2020 to 11.1% in 2021.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated by Guilherme Miranda<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-287391\">Fadel Senna\/AFP<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Agriculture Ministry forecasts a good season after the crisis caused by COVID-19 repercussions and lack of rainfalls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":287391,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[15214,28822,10274,12625,9558],"class_list":{"0":"post-287402","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-2021-en","9":"tag-agricultura-en","10":"tag-agriculture-en","11":"tag-marrocos-ar","12":"tag-morocco-en"},"wps_subtitle":"The Agriculture Ministry forecasts a good season after the crisis caused by COVID-19 repercussions and lack of rainfalls.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}