Vegetable and Legume Prices Surge in Morocco Amid Coronavirus Concerns

According to Les Inspirations Éco, there is a price surge for certain vegetables in the Souss-Massa region, which nevertheless supplies the national market with 850,000 tons, or 60% of national production.

Vegetables (onions, carrots, potatoes in bulk and half-bulk) are the agricultural products affected by this surge. Legume prices (white beans, lentils, broad beans and chickpeas) have also risen.

"Apart from the increase in demand observed by consumers, production is carried out normally at the farm level, with the necessary precautions taken to fight against coronavirus," explains Lhoucine Aderdour, president of the Inter-professional Federation of Fruit and Vegetable Production and Export (FIFEL).