The National Agency for the Regulation of Activities Relating to Cannabis (ANRAC) presented, Thursday in Rabat, during its board of directors, the progress of technical and financial achievements for the 2024 financial year and the program of action of the 2025 campaign.
The main actions undertaken in 2024 to respond to the support of farmers concerned in particular the establishment of regulatory procedures for the use of seeds of the local beldia variety, the mobilization of financing offers in favor of small farmers and the organization of market prospecting missions and promotion of legal Moroccan cannabis products at the international level.
In 2024, ANRAC issued 3,371 authorizations out of a total of 4,158 authorization requests examined and processed. These include 3,056 authorizations for the benefit of 2,907 farmers for the activity of cultivation and production of cannabis, compared to 430 issued in 2023, and 315 authorizations for the benefit of 158 operators.
These 315 authorizations concern 77 for the processing activity, 83 for marketing, 67 for export, 35 for the import of seeds, 50 for transport, 1 for the export of seeds and 2 for the creation and production of seeds. nursery operations. Regarding the 158 operators, they are divided between 35 cooperatives, 87 companies and 36 individuals.
For the 2024 campaign, ANRAC certified 7.6 million imported cannabis seeds on the basis of 30 import authorizations granted by the National Food Safety Office (ONSSA) to 21 importers. ANRAC also authorized the use of 1,717 quintals of beldia seeds, based on the 112 authorizations for the use of these seeds granted by ONSSA to 112 cooperatives.
For 2024, the Agency also recorded the planting of 2,169 hectares of legal cannabis by 2,647 farmers grouped into 189 cooperatives. This involves 1,701 hectares sown with the local Beldia variety by 1,767 farmers grouped into 109 cooperatives, and 468 hectares sown with imported varieties by 880 farmers grouped into 80 cooperatives.
The production of legal cannabis in 2024 amounts to 4,082.4 tonnes, with an average yield of 20 quintals per hectare. It is distributed between 2,786.7 tonnes from the Beldia variety with an average yield of 17 quintals per hectare and 1,295.7 tonnes from imported varieties with an average yield of 28 quintals per hectare.
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