Morocco's twisted plan to unseat Spain as Europe's main supplier of fruits and vegetables

Published 2024년 6월 20일

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Morocco is set to boost its agricultural imports to the European Union by constructing the continent's largest desalination plant in Africa, located in the municipality of Lamharza Essahel, near El Jadida. The plant, built with a public-private partnership and funding from the Spanish government through the Fund for the Internationalization of Companies (FIEM), will have an annual production capacity of 300 million cubic meters, serving areas with significant agricultural participation. The project, funded partly by Spanish construction company Acciona and other Spanish entities, is expected to be completed in two phases by mid-2028, capable of producing up to 838,000 cubic meters of treated water per day.

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That Morocco intends to displace Spain with its imports of fruits and vegetables to the European Union is nothing new, but that it intends to do so at the expense of Spain, is something that has become clear with the inauguration of the works, last week, of the largest desalination plant in Africa. Located in the municipality of Lamharza Essahel, in the province of El Jadida, on a 50-hectare plot of land and as part of the National Drinking Water Supply and Irrigation Program 2020-2027, launched by the King of Morocco in 2020, the plant It will have an annual production capacity of 300 million cubic meters, covering the water demand of Greater Casablanca, the towns of Settat, Berrechid and Bir Jdid and neighboring regions such as Had Soualem, areas with extensive participation in Moroccan agriculture. which will be possible, according to the official Moroccan information agency MAP, thanks to the mobilization of 6.5 billion dirhams (about 605.9 million euros), through a ...

Source: InfoAgro