Rabat-Salé-Kénitra: a battery of incentive measures to ensure the success of the 2024-2025 agricultural campaign.
A battery of incentive measures have been put in place to ensure the success of the 2024-2025 agricultural campaign in the Rabat-Salé-Kénitra region, the Regional Directorate of Agriculture (DRA) indicated on Wednesday.
In collaboration with its partners, the Regional Directorate of the Agricultural Council, the Regional Directorate of the National Food Safety Office, the National Seed Marketing Company and the National Cereals and Legumes Office, the DRA initiated specific actions to support farmers in the face of climatic and economic challenges, diversify crops and strengthen food security, underlined the Management in a press release.
Noting that financial and technical support has been allocated for the main crops, she recalled that seed and fertilizer subsidies are granted by the State in order to support the region’s sectors, particularly cereals and legumes, with 610,000 hectares programmed. In addition to financial aid, technical training and support programs are planned for the benefit of farmers, it was added.
In order to ensure the relaunch of production sectors at the regional level, measures adapted to each sector have been developed, said the DRA, explaining that around 200,000 quintals of certified autumn cereal seeds will be available at incentive prices, via 45 sales centers.
She also noted that during this year, support extends to new species of cereals, fodder and legumes, such as triticale, oats, vetch, fodder peas, broad beans, lentils and chickpeas, in order to encourage fodder crops and crop rotation.
“The subsidized prices of cereal seeds are as follows: soft wheat at 380 DH/quintal, durum wheat at 600 DH/quintal, barley at 380 DH/quintal, oats at 610 DH/quintal, triticale at 510 DH/quintal, bean/ fava beans at 800 DH/quintal, lentils and chickpeas at 1,150 DH/quintal, and fodder peas and others at 615 DH/quintal,” continued the same source.
Concerning subsidized nitrogen fertilizers, the regional agricultural market will be supplied with 503,200 quintals via 11 relay centers, with prices maintained at the same level as those of the previous campaign, reported the Management, noting that the proposed prices will be 240 DH/qx for ammonium nitrate 33%, 330 DH/qx for urea 46% and 150 DH/qx for ammonium sulfate 21%.
Furthermore, the regional direct seeding program for the 2024-2025 agricultural campaign will cover an area of 70,000 hectares, with the objective of 200,000 hectares by 2030, through the distribution of 49 seed drills. directly to agricultural cooperatives, as well as strengthening awareness and support for farmers to adopt this technique.
As for the multi-risk climatic agricultural insurance intended for cereals, legumes and oilseed crops, it aims to cover an area of approximately 245,000 hectares, by offering financial protection to farmers, securing their income and thus helping to encourage agricultural investments.
The DRA also aims, through the regional market gardening program, to install crops over an area of 55,000 hectares spread over the four seasons, by subsidizing the acquisition of seeds and plants of round tomatoes, onions and potatoes.
The region plans to plant 19,600 hectares of sugar crops thanks to the improvement of the water situation in the Gharb area and the renewal of producer prices of 80 DH/T for sugar beet and 70 DH/T for sugar cane, we continued.
In order to give new impetus to the red meat sector, the DRA will continue to implement measures to safeguard livestock thanks to the program to reduce the impact of the rainfall deficit and the effects of the economic situation (PRIDPEC).
Thus, 350,000 qx of barley programmed as part of the 3rd tranche are being distributed to 14 relay centers spread across the different provinces of the region, said the press release, noting that the program also provides for the equipment water points and the acquisition of tanks for watering livestock.
In order to replenish the herd numbers and stabilize the prices of red meat on the market, measures to encourage the importation of fattening calves and sheep are still in place, while provincial committees carry out visits to lazarets and fattening units to encourage importers and fatteners to speed up slaughtering in order to ensure a sufficient supply of red meat (cattle and sheep) to the markets.
For milk, the distribution of 333,500 qx of compound feed scheduled under the 3rd tranche of PRIDPEC continues under good conditions, during the current campaign, while the operation will extend to other animal species for the production of red meats.
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In another aspect, vaccination campaigns for cattle against foot-and-mouth disease, sheep and goats against sheep and PPR are planned and the generalized identification operation for cattle according to the SNIT will be continued. The program also includes a campaign to treat hives against Varrosis.
In preparation for the 2024-2025 agricultural campaign, a meeting of the Regional Coordination Committee in Agriculture was held last Friday in Kénitra under the chairmanship of the Regional Director of Agriculture of Rabat Salé Kénitra, with a view to examining the modalities of implementation implementation of these specific measures.
To succeed in this agricultural campaign, a large media and non-media awareness and communication campaign will be carried out by the DRA of Rabat Salé Kénitra, in coordination with members of the CCR, for the benefit of farmers in the region, the press release concluded.
