Meeting small farmers

The Caravan started in Meknes, specifically in Boufekrane, and is continuing over 45 days, visiting 11 other regions. The aim of the tour is to meet small Moroccan farmers to help them better understand the specificities and needs of their crops and soil, to assist them in the reasoned use of fertilisers in appropriate quality and quantity, and to modernise national agriculture, in line with the main objectives of the Green Morocco Plan. The 2012 OCP Cereal Caravan has therefore arrived in the rural commune of Beni Bataou (Bejaad circle, Khouribga province), as part of a programme that previously covered Meknes, Ait Jemaa, Tlat Bouguedra, Zemamra, Berrechid, Settat and Beni Mellal. After this ninth stage, it will travel to Rass Tabouda, Rommani and Had Kourt. Significant human and material resources have been mobilised to answer all the farmers' questions through a soil analysis laborat…