Boost to agricultural sectors in mountainous areas

Often isolated, mountainous areas suffer from many imbalances and problems, including low income, degradation of natural resources, and lack of access to information. In this capacity, the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has granted Morocco, during the last decade, more than 21 million dollars in the form of donations for the benefit of more than 750,000 households living in very difficult conditions, particularly in mountainous areas.The presence of IFAD in the Kingdom has, in fact, made it possible to improve synergies between the Fund's investments and those of Morocco, notably through the Green Morocco Plan-Pillar II which focuses exclusively on peasant agriculture. In this framework, the Vice-President of IFAD, Perin Saint-Ange, has just carried out a visit to the Al-Haouz province where he inquired about the achievements made in the wake of the Agricultural…