Fès-Boulemane: the chickpea culture development project will be undertaken on 1,000 ha (DRA)

This project will concern, at the end of an implementation agreement for a project to aggregate the legume sector (chickpea), recently concluded with the Spanish group "Naturalim SA", an area of 4,000 ha and 500 aggregated farmers in the Region.The rural communes concerned by this aggregation are Ain Bouali, Louadaine, Ain Kansara, and Ouled Mimoun falling under the province of Moulay Yacoub, and Bir Tamtam, Ras Tabouda, and Aghbalou Aqorar in the province of Séfrou, specifies the same source.According to the agreement, the aggregator will ensure the supply of necessary inputs, soil analyses in laboratories, and close supervision and training for the aggregated farmers. It also undertakes to take charge of the collection, reception, and processing of production in its packaging plant, as well as its marketing on the national market and for export.As for the purchase price of the product…