After being followed by the start of the olive flower flower, which falls at the end of March each year, Moroccan farmers and researchers confirmed that the rains that have fallen into a number of Moroccan agricultural areas will increase the level of flowers and considerably reduce the cost of watering, promising “an expected reduction in the prices of olive marketing and olive oil in the next season by the next season 20 percent. “.
They explained, in the testimonies of the Hespress electronic newspaper, that “these rains will help purify the atmosphere of bacteria which generally cause the murder of olive trees” and “reduces the cost of watering following the high level of water in the ground, and reaching the proportions of filling of the majority of high Dams.”
Thursday, the total filling rate of Moroccan dams reached 37.84%, representing 6 million and 372,000 cubic meters, against 26.84%, or more than 4 million and 327,000 cubic meters, the same day last year.
During the past season, it seemed clear that there were many years of dehydration on the productivity of olive trees in Morocco, because it decreased by around 80% in certain regions, in particular in Fez-Meknes and Atawiya in the province of Qalata al-Saragna, according to professional sources revealed to the species of newspaper. This is the situation at the end of overcoming the prices of olive oil, the 100 dirhams barrier per liter.
Miloud Al -Ramah, an olive farm farmer in the Shishawah region, decided that “Kulo Shad olives had, after recent precipitation”, expected that “the quantities of rains increased the productivity of olive trees in all regions concerning the production of this vital substance, in particular because they have made the atmosphere purify the atmosphere that affect the flowering of these trees. “
“In the absence of rain, bacteria fall strongly on olive flowers, which leads to a fruit ultimately at the end,” said Al -Ramah, adding that “recent precipitation eliminated these pollutants, which is considered a good season for olives and olive oil this year”.
On the other hand, the farmer alerted his eye according to which “this level of optimism does not matter from olive trees which suffer from advanced levels of stabilization and pollution with dust, so that the quantities of rain will not help them make them productive this season”, explaining again that “hopes remain confined to the return of these trees for life and the next year.
Al -Ramah stressed that “waiting for the increase in the cost of olives is mainly concerned and exclusively the trees which are still green, and the parents of the peasants wanted to take advantage of it with minimum watering with water during the recent period.”
For its part, Anas Mansouri, an agricultural engineer, expected that “the precipitation known this month, all plantations and cultures, including olive trees”, explaining that “the two categories are olive: mule and irrigated, their yields will increase this season thanks to these rains”.
Mansouri, addressing Hespress, said that “the profitability of olive trees will be this season, compared to its predecessors, certainly distinguished”, explaining that “the rains came at a pivotal time for this agriculture, which is the period of flowers in which these trees need large amounts of precipitation to be on good levels”.
On the other hand, the author highlighted the “need to mention the fact that an important part of olive trees depends on the question of the rotation of the productivity level, so that it produces a year of great cultures and another year of less cultures.”
Mansouri also expected “olive olives and olive oil to decrease during this season between 10 and 20 percent”, stressing that “these falls will contribute to the distribution of watering farmers during the month of March. They will also become mainly dependent on the dams of the dams which increased its complete percentage with the last rains.”
He explained that “several farmers will obtain water from the water dams at a symbolic price, in particular in Marrakech, Atawiya, Al -Saragna Castle, Tadla and Bani Musa, and others”, benefiting that “the cost of pumping will also considerably reduce water in the level of the earth.”
In order to support “these expectations”, the researcher and the agricultural engineer himself underlined “the need to control export so that the supply remains balanced with demand, in a way that ensures the prices of olive and olive oil at reasonable levels”, with “the fight against brokers that result in the prices of these vital products”.
