Surge in fruit and vegetable prices

Tan Tan is a small town where most of the inhabitants are without income, apart from a few retired members of the FAR or former immigrant workers who keep the trade going.Until 2010, the cost of living was among the lowest in the Kingdom. Rent was affordable, and the town's geographical position, which makes it an unavoidable passage to the southern regions of the country, facilitates the supply of fruit and vegetables at reasonable prices. This position also allows many traffickers of subsidised products to store their goods in a town near the areas where basic necessities are part of these subsidised products.But lately, neither the proximity to areas with subsidised products nor the town's geographical location works in favour of the populations of the Tan Tan province, where food prices are the same as in Rabat, Fès, or Casablanca and where incomes are very low, if not non-existent.…