Inauguration of the Argan House in Smara

No one could have imagined that one day, the province of Smara would be the source of any agri-food production. And for good reason. This city is located in the most arid southern part of the Moroccan southern provinces, a short distance from the Lahmada desert, where rainfall is among the lowest locally and where the main fauna consisted, until now, of acacia, known locally as Talh, to which several medicinal and ecological virtues are attributed. But to go as far as financing the launch of a cooperative whose objective is the production and marketing of argan oil was a challenge that local authorities did not hesitate to take up.Everyone was unaware that the province of Smara also possessed argan trees extending over an area of 3,000 hectares in the rural communes of J’Diria and Haouza. It is for the valorisation of this wealth and within the framework of strengthening the socio-econo…