Cultivated area shrinks to about 2.5m hectares compared to 4m prior to severe water scarcity
It has striven to develop its industrial and service sectors over the past two decades, hoping to create more jobs
His day-long journey was for nothing. Now Loubaoui fears he will end up like the roughly 159,000 Moroccan agricultural workers who, official figures say, have lost their jobs since early last year.Large areas of the Mediterranean have been under "alert drought conditions", a phenomenon even more pronounced in Morocco and its neighbours Algeria and Tunisia, according to the European Drought Observatory's latest analysis.
He and his five children now depend financially on his wife, who is employed at a larger farm near the city of Meknes, about 70 kilometres from their village. "We have modern and sophisticated agriculture, but it only spans around 15pc of cultivatable areas," said Abderrahim Handouf, a researcher and agricultural engineer.
Cars, for example, topped Morocco's exports last year with a record value of more than 141bn dirhams.
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