Damage from recent bad weather estimated at 12.5 MDH

The hailstorms recorded in the communes of Aoufous, Outerbat, Sidi Aayyad, and Hssiya caused damage to agricultural production, particularly regarding apple trees."Farmers must now think about acquiring anti-hail equipment and structuring themselves into an association or a cooperative, in order to coordinate efforts with the services concerned and avoid such losses," indicated Mohamed Bousfoul, head of the irrigation and drainage network management service at the ORMVAT. Furthermore, while for irrigation infrastructure, the damage recorded only reached 1.5 million DH, the losses reported in agricultural production reached 11.1 million DH, particularly in the Aoufous area, in the Errachidia circle, the same source adds.According to this same provisional report from the ORMVAT, the losses recorded concerned olive trees (1,200 tonnes), date palms (500 tonnes) with the uprooting of about t…