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VEND 15, SAM. 16 ET DIM. 17 JUILLET 2022 - N°6304 NE PEUT ÊTRE VENDU SÉPARÉMENT DÉPÔT LÉGAL 100/1991 DIRECTEUR DE PUBLICATION KHALID BELYAZID
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Editorial Impact Khalid BELYAZID

H OW come the most important day in our economy is not the subject of high, and not only this year, but for decades. In Morocco and for times imme-
any impact assessment by the High Commission for Planning (HCP), how morial, Eid al-Adha is the only subject for weeks, which is only obscured on D-
come no thesis, no recommendation is made in connection with the New Day by the quantity of fat which is still insufficient for the “Boulfaf” (traditional
Development Model (NMD)? Only raw figures, but nothing on the social and Moroccan offal dish consisting of grilled lamb). The price of a sheep is at least
ecological consequences of this special day on the rest of the year. The Ministry equivalent to a monthly guaranteed agricultural minimum wage for a 50-kilo
of Agriculture estimates at 7 billion MAD the transfers to the countryside resul- sheep and to an average wage for a well-horned animal. The loan granted for
ting from commercial transactions of slaughter animals, transfers which the the purchase of Eid Al Adha sheep relates to one-day festivities, and this loan is
inhabitants of the countryside really need; income from livestock compensates repayable throughout the year. The paradox is that the poorer you are the more
for crop income reduced by the drought. But who benefits from those transfers? you care about this day of the year. It is sometimes a sad ostentation, even if
The small breeders, or the big ones getting fatter in the stables? And at what cost most Moroccans strive to save this day as a holiday established by the Sunnah,
for the Government who supports the price of fodder? Because a sheep eats, and the religious tradition. The most curious thing is that despite the catastrophic
not three meals a day, but all day only to ruminate at night. And a sheep drinks, speeches one can hear, demand for sheep does not weaken, which would lead
too. What is the impact on the water stress of the countryside of 5.6 million one to think that our families had for this single day some hidden income, or
sheep, reared for a whole year just to be slaughtered on this single day of the rather cash stashed somewhere, because this is how the billions of dirhams
year? Beyond these costs, whether accounted for or not, the price is considered resulting from the sheep business do circulate. o