Drought season: Opposition groups require government to readjust economic goals

Drought season: Opposition groups require government to readjust economic goals
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Sunday 13 February 2022 - 13:30

Opposition groups in the House of Representatives have called the Ministers of Interior, Water, Agriculture, and Economy to meetings of four permanent committees to discuss the repercussions of the current drought.

These requests came after a delayed rainfall across the country, threatening the agricultural yield for 2022.

Regional Average rainfall deficits since September have reached 220mm across Morocco’s primary croplands between the central Atlantic Coast and the Atlas Mountains, less than one-third of normal.

The country’s southwestern growing areas have fared even worse, with season-to-date rainfall totaling a paltry 25 mm, approximately 15% of the normal rates for the region.

In the majority of government, the Political Bureau of the Authenticity and Modernity Party had called for an urgent meeting of the parties to study the negative repercussions of the delay recorded in rainfall.

The government had drawn up the Finance Bill based on a number of assumptions, including achieving an average grain yield of 80 million quintals, which is unlikely to be reached

The Popular Movement Party on Friday called on the government to “present a draft amendment to the Finance Law as soon as possible to review the expectations and indicators, and to reconsider its orientations.”

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    Monday 14 February 2022 - 11:24

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