Morocco’s supply of watermelon to the European Union grew by more than 30 percent in the first half of 2021, and for the first time sold more than two million fruits, pushing Spanish growers out of the lead in the watermelon European market.
Morocco earned a record profit of EUR132.396.300 million in the first quarter of the year, for the first time, selling more than 29.84 percent than Spain. Ten years ago, Spain had supplied 165.95 percent more to member states than Morocco.
Spain has only sold 156.3 million kilos of watermelon, 116.94 million kilos less than in figures recorded between January 1 and June 3, when it sold 273.24 million kilos, 74.82% more than figures recorded in the same period, according to the statistical service Euroestacom (Icex-Eurostat).
Morocco’s prices averaged around 0.65 euros per kilo, while Spanish prices ranged around 0.67 euros per kilo.
The third supplier of watermelon to the EU market was the Netherlands, followed by Costa Rica, and Germany.
Ten years into Morocco’s Green Plan that placed the agricultural exports at the heart of its strategy, the country sold 117% percent more to international markets between 2008-2018 from 15 billion MAD to 33 billion MAD.
The strategy was set up over 112,000 hectares of land for agricultural exploitation, with investments costing 22.3 billion MAD and creating 63,000 jobs.
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