Total Energies CEO Patrick Pouyanné announced during the Combined General Meeting of Shareholders on Thursday, May 26, 2023, an ambitious renewable energy project in Morocco.
Moroccan fruits and vegetables, especially tomatoes, are direct competitors of Spanish products on European markets.
While continuing to develop and modernize its agricultural and agri-food sector, Morocco has gradually conquered the European market, becoming today the main supplier of certain fruits and vegetables such as tomatoes, highly sought after in supermarkets in the old continent.
While Moroccan tomato imports on the European market have continued to increase over the past ten years, those from European Union countries, particularly Spain, have dropped considerably.
Watermelons are experiencing a dizzying rise in prices in Morocco, causing concern among consumers. While they were traditionally sold at an affordable price of two dirhams per kilogram, their cost now exceeds 25 dirhams.
Morocco aims to produce 52% of its energy from renewable sources by 2030 to export a large part of it to Europe through submarine cables. Will it prioritize exports over meeting domestic demand?
Moroccan exports of fruits and vegetables to the Russian Federation have declined to the point that Morocco is completely out of the top 15 exporters to Vladimir Putin’s country.
Morocco wants to relax the export conditions to be able to sell textile products from Asia to Europe without paying customs duties. A practice that could deal a blow to the European and Spanish textile sector in particular.
The Franco-Moroccan Reda Abakrim alias "Turbo", considered a big shot in the export of cannabis from Morocco to France, was acquitted by a Casablanca court in a case of murder committed in the Cité de La Coudraie in Poissy in 2007.
The associations of fruit and vegetable producers and exporters are calling on the government of Aziz Akhannounch to authorize the resumption of exports.
The drought affecting Morocco will not have a negative impact on its avocado exports. The kingdom is on the verge of setting a new record.
The association of winegrowers, the Cellier des demoiselles, located in Saint-Laurent-de-la-Cabrerisse, in the Corbières region, has started exporting its products to Morocco, after the resumption of its exports to the United States following the suspension of the Trump tax.