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Moroccan activists launch a campaign to boycott Algerian dates

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Morocco
Algeria
Published Mar 24, 2022

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Moroccan activists demanded on social networking sites to ban the import of smuggled Algerian dates after discovering that they contain carcinogenic substances, especially since many countries have already gotten rid of them, calling for a boycott of them and contentment with the local product. Activists called for encouraging the local production of dates in the context of supporting Moroccan farmers, especially since Morocco doubled the volume of its exports of high-quality dates, by more than 110 percent during the first months of last year, as a result of the increased demand for this agricultural product from consumers in European and North American markets in particular. European countries and foreign suppliers refused to acquire Algerian dates, as international engineers belonging to an international company in the technology of the cold room industry revealed that the Algerian dates are subject to a wrong cooling and freezing process, and the agricultural product, after ...
Source: Rue20
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