The fourth stage of the Itinerant Village will take place next Monday in Sidi Bennour. The goal is to offer farmers the opportunity to learn about several products and services related to their activities, and to offer institutional partners a mobile space to promote their services to farmers.

The fourth stage of the Itinerant Village, initiated by the National Office for Agricultural Advisory (ONCA), an establishment in charge of advising, supervising and supporting farmers, is scheduled for 26 October, in Sidi Bennour, in the Doukkala-Abda region. It is a mobile professional space that has travelled through different regions of the Kingdom and whose launch took place on 3 February 2015 at the Berkane agropole, the ONCA points out in a press release, noting that the design and development of this itinerant agricultural advisory device stem from its desire to set up diversified channels for supporting the programmes and actions of the ONCA for farmers throughout the national territory. This village is designed around an ecosystem of institutional and professional partners and integrates the "region" dimension into its operationalisation. The implementation of this village also enshrines the intervention principles of the ONCA, based on proximity to stakeholders and advisory support. Such an agricultural advisory device is focused on information in terms of actions undertaken within the framework of the Green Morocco Plan at the regional and local level. The objective, according to the Office, is to offer farmers the opportunity to learn about several products and services related to their activities, to offer institutional partners a quasi-permanent mobile space, in order to promote their service and benefit offers to farmers and to convey awareness-raising messages of a technical and managerial nature specific to the region for the development of agriculture.

Faithful to its mission of supporting farmers, the ONCA is planning for this fourth stage a programme of 38 supervised trips integrating the best logistical conditions for the benefit of 230 small and medium-sized farmers, as well as ONCA agricultural advisors. This village will also be marked by the presentation of agricultural advisory presentations for the benefit of farmers. These presentations will be provided by professionals in the agricultural sector as well as ONCA agricultural advisors and will focus on various agricultural themes, including reasoned fertilisation (case of potatoes and soft wheat), feeding dairy cows, olive tree diseases and pests, and irrigation.