Meriem Bensalah Chaqroun highlights the potential of the region

The president of the CGEM also reported problems that hinder the economic development of the region such as air connectivity.The Souss-Massa region is full of important assets allowing it to have a contribution to the national GDP higher than the 7.7% it currently achieves, indicated, Friday in Agadir, the president of the General Confederation of Moroccan Enterprises (CGEM), Meriem Bensalah Chaqroun. "The Region deserves and can do, I am convinced, much more", stressed Ms. Bensalah Chaqroun, who was speaking during a meeting with economic operators in the region, noting that Souss-Massa is the second region of Morocco in terms of wealth creation and has a solid and diversified economy (tourism, fishing, agriculture and industry). In the agri-food sector, 44% of Morocco's fruit and vegetable exports and 50% of the Kingdom's fisheries production come from this region, which is also the 2…