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The Kingdom, via the visits made by the Sovereign to a number of African international locations, “has made agriculture a necessary ingredient of its cooperation with African international locations, whether or not via cooperation packages or the Royal Directions given to the OCP with a view to establishing a particular program for these international locations,” famous the minister in a press release to the press, on the sidelines of the work of the African Summit on fertilizers and soil well being, held within the Kenyan capital.
On this sense, Mr. Bourita famous that out of concern for solidarity with African international locations, HM the King gave His Excessive Directions to the OCP, in order to help the States of the African continent on this essential interval, marked by robust stress on fertilizers.
He additionally indicated that the Sovereign insisted that Morocco take part in power on this summit, given the significance given to agriculture within the royal imaginative and prescient for South-South cooperation and for inter-African cooperation.
“Agriculture is just not solely linked to meals safety and sovereignty. It additionally performs a elementary position in financial growth, with out forgetting that the way forward for Africa, as HM the King emphasizes, is linked to the event of its agriculture and its rural areas,” stated the minister.
Alternatively, Mr. Bourita highlighted the structural issues from which African agriculture suffers and which had been examined throughout this summit, highlighting the responses supplied by Morocco on this framework, via the varied packages launched by SM King Mohammed VI, such because the “Inexperienced Morocco Plan” and “Inexperienced Technology”, that are all experiences that may serve African international locations for the event of their agriculture.
“The African continent, which at present accommodates 65% of the world’s arable land, has greater than 200 million individuals affected by malnutrition. Equally, Africa, the place 65% of agricultural land suffers from low fertilizer use, makes use of lower than half the typical quantity of fertilizer used on this planet. Lastly, the African agricultural sector, which occupies 60% of the floor space, contributes lower than 14% to the continent’s GDP,” he famous.
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