Morocco: Tomato prices are burning the pockets of citizens, and the Minister of Agriculture is watching

These days, tomato prices are witnessing an unprecedented rise, as most of the markets in the economic capital reached 14 dirhams per kilogram, which raised the absence of a communication policy by the Minister of Agriculture, Mohamed Seddiqi, to explain the reasons for the meteoric rise in tomatoes. Although tomato producers attributed the rise in the price of tomatoes to the cold weather and the emergence of some diseases in a number of farms active in tomato production, the Minister of Agriculture did not come out with an explanatory statement on the matter. The price of a 30-kg box of tomatoes ranged between 150 and 300 dirhams, depending on the quality and size. On the other hand, declines were ...