Morocco Launches Farmer Support Program for Newly Privatized Collective Lands

This capacity building program is part of the implementation of the support measures for the melkization operation under the "Rural Land" project, which is part of the "Compact II" cooperation program, subsidized by the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), and its implementation is based on the implementation of an action plan and its execution, in order to ensure better agricultural development of collective lands, as well as the inclusive development of the target population.

This program, which is fully in line with the implementation of the new national agricultural strategy "Generation Green 2020-2030", and which places the human being at the center of the maintenance of the agricultural sector, is structured around two points: the first concerns the organization of awareness-raising caravans "village councils" in order to raise awareness among the beneficiaries on good farming and environmental protection practices, as well as the modalities for setting up and developing Professional Agricultural Organizations (OPAs) and others. As for the second point, it consists of organizing theoretical and practical training sessions in the field, monitoring the existing OPAs in order to improve their capacity.

Officially launched on June 26, 2019 in Rabat, the melkization operation is part of the implementation of the High Directives of His Majesty King Mohammed VI, urging to make collective lands an instrument of economic and social development in rural areas and to activate the melkization in favor of the rightful claimants and free of charge of the collective lands inside the irrigation perimeters. With a total budget of 33 million dollars, the melkization operation mainly aims to improve the living standards of the target population through the amplification of agricultural investments, the revitalization of the land market, the socio-economic support of the beneficiaries, as well as the creation of jobs.