
Morocco Faces Green Tea Shortage as China's Coronavirus Outbreak Disrupts Imports
Morocco fears a shortage of its green tea stocks due to the closure of factories in China, following the Coronavirus epidemic.

Morocco fears a shortage of its green tea stocks due to the closure of factories in China, following the Coronavirus epidemic.
Brazil plans to soon export fish to Morocco. This is the main point to be retained from a press release from the Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply.

The average annual expenditure of Moroccan families on food products is around 5,800 dirhams. This is indicated by data from the Ministry of Economy and Finance.

The coronavirus epidemic is likely to make Chinese products disappear from the Russian market. The probability that these imported food products in Russia will be replaced by those from Turkey and Morocco is very high, according to the director of the Russian Association of Food Producers and Suppliers (Rusprodsoyuz).

A fruit and vegetable packaging station will be built in Dakhla. The launch of the construction site will take place in the coming weeks.

The Moroccan army has placed a new order for frozen meats worth $21 million for the benefit of its troops.

At a time when energies are focused on combating the spread of the coronavirus raging in China, a new virus is threatening tomatoes, including Moroccan ones.

Morocco has experienced a boom in its agri-food exports between 2010 and 2018. Exports have increased from 29.3 billion DH to 57.7 billion DH during this period.

The National Office of Food Safety (ONSSA) has reported on its activities at the end of December 2019. It appears that tons of food products and mint have been destroyed or rejected.

Moroccans who consume raw, undercooked, marinated, or preserved fish in preparations with low salt and acetic acid content are exposed to various diseases.

The port of Tanger-Med has installed a dematerialized solution for the export procedure of agri-food products, from the conditioning stations throughout the Kingdom.

While the payment of the subsidy for gas and sugar products alone amounted to 15.80 billion dirhams, the arrears exceed 1.78 billion. This is indicated by the provisional data recorded at the end of December.