2024-04-24 04:23:33
The sessions concerned the motorway network of the regions of Beni Mellal-Khénifra, Marrakech-Safi, Tangier-Tétouan-Al-Hoceima and Fès-Meknes, indicates ADM in a press release.
This initiative is part of the Al Ard program, deployed by ADM for around ten years, and which aims to protect highway embankments against water erosion and to stabilize them using native plants, selected after numerous research in biological engineering, specifies the same source.
In this sense, ADM decided to involve local farmers on the highway in the process of multiplication and production of seeds and indigenous plants dedicated to the stabilization of highway embankments, thus creating an income-generating activity as part of a new value chain, explains the press release.
These sessions aimed to introduce local farmers to this new value chain, to explain the opportunities it could offer them in a context of water stress, and to expose the multiple advantages of seed and plant multiplication. indigenous people, according to ADM.
Students from the Institute of Specialized Agricultural Technicians (ITSA) also took advantage of these sessions to introduce them to these innovative and sustainable practices.
“These actions are part of ADM’s sustainable development and CSR strategy, and demonstrate its commitment to making the motorway a happy passage,” the press release concludes.
2024-04-24 04:23:33