date:Aug 28, 2014
The 2014 grain harvest is concluded. Being largely rainfed, cereal production in Morocco is highly variable. Dry conditions in autumn 2013 slowed down wheat planting. Compared to previous year, about 15 per cent less land was planted to cereals. Despite generally favourable weather conditions later in the season, yields were not sufficient to offset the area reduction.
The Ministry of Agriculture puts a preliminary cereal production forecast in 2014 at about 7 million tonnes, some 29 per cent b