Morocco Offers Aid to Farmers Affected by Algerian Land Seizure in Figuig Region

The state has decided to grant financial and in-kind aid to Moroccan farmers in the Figuig region who had part of their ancestral lands torn away by Algeria, three of their representatives told Médias24. They were keen to clarify that these are aids from the Moroccan state to the dispossessed and stricken farmers, and not compensations.

The expropriated farms that were in irrigated perimeters and belong to investors who settled around 1990 benefit from different aids: 8,000 DH for each "Aziza" variety palm tree, 5,000 DH for each "Boufakkous Gharas" variety palm tree, 4,000 DH for each "Boufakkous" variety palm tree, 2,500 DH for each "AlAssiane" variety palm tree, 1,500 DH for each "AlKhalt" variety palm tree and 2,500 DH for each fruit tree outside the palm trees.

As for the rainfed perimeter, the Moroccan state undertakes to "develop 200 hectares of state-owned land, as part of the Green Generation plan, plant and equip them with drip irrigation, and then return them to the Ksar Oulad Slimane whose farmers will operate them in the form of a cooperative".