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VEND. 5, SAM.6 ET DIM. 7 MAI 2023 - N°6509 NE PEUT ÊTRE VENDU SÉPARÉMENT DÉPÔT LÉGAL 100/1991 DIRECTEUR DE PUBLICATION KHALID BELYAZID
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A boost for niche tou-
rism

The surprising rise in
business insolvencies

Payment terms
Naming and Shaming
looming ahead

Agricultural emergencies Air Transport:

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Editorial Trade show Khalid BELYAZID

W HY hold a beautiful trade show in a cracked house that threatens weighs down growth, agro-critics invented the “non-agricultural GDP”,
to collapse? This is what the Salon de l’Agriculture au Maroc and extoll only the virtues of the industrial sector. The problem is that fac-
(Siam) is doing for an agricultural sector that has never been so tories also need a lot of water, and cities, even more than the countryside,
problematic, with the most terrible drought in years, 20% inflation of food are now affected by “the” problem, namely the scarcity of water, to the
products, starving livestock, and other plagues. This week, the largest point where irrigation is suspended to prevent cities from suffering from
trade show in Morocco defies those calamities. However, many agro- thirst. Nonetheless, our agro-critics have been shaken by the pandemic
critics denigrate an agriculture which represents “only” 15% of the GDP, which has spelt the end of happy globalization and made sovereignty and
and absorbs a lot of investments and subsidies for little results. According security, especially food security and sovereignty, fashionable as war is
to those detractors, agriculture is supposed to reduce an entire people to raging between two major wheat producers. So, like all countries, Mo-
waiting for the rain, which undermines morale and becomes a pretext for rocco clings to its countryside. The country multiplies social innovations,
postponing investments and recruitment, and a pretext behind payment technologies, and optimized irrigation, and 1,400 operators, from multi-
delays... In addition, since Morocco is a semi-arid country, agro-critics national companies to cooperatives, are attending Siam, the trade show of
propose to import the abundant agricultural products on the international our agricultural house. These operators are convinced that agriculture will
markets and to stop “exporting water”. And as ungrateful agriculture stand the course, and will fill its cracks and especially its water leaks.o