Rabat -stakeholders from a variety of sectors have committed efforts and introduced measures to contribute to sustainable destinations Morocco, including the fertilizer giant -Ocp group.
The group launched several initiatives all year round to support Morocco’s agricultural products and to help farmers directly to develop their agricultural skills to better treat their soils.
One of the many initiatives is the Al Moutmir program, which has been effective since 2018 to support the needs of farmers with innovative solutions that want to serve the country’s nutritional safety.
The aim of the initiative is to bring research and innovation together and to cover the entire value chain from the soil needs and the tailor -made fertilizer formulation to the support of farmers.
Al Moutmir initiative works with stakeholders, including the Moroccan Ministry of Agriculture, to ensure that farmers have access to solutions that contribute to the development and improvement of soil health.
Speech
OCP has highlighted the important statistics and trips that the initiative has offered since its foundation.
The presentation came when Morocco celebrated the largest agricultural fair that was opened in Meknes this week and made international exhibitors, representatives and participants discussed various topics, including agricultural challenges and water shortages.
OCPS outlook on Al Moutmir emphasized how the initiative introduced over 3,500 tailor -made formulas that have been used by farmers since 2019.
Since its introduction, this program has directly supported over 40,000 farmers and has reached it indirectly over 540,000 to offer digital solutions.
Overlay over 43 provinces that Al Moutmir The team includes young agronomists who have been expanded by over 40 agronomists and agricultural technicians by 2024.
The outlook emphasized the importance of the University of Mohammed VI Polytechnic (UM6P) and its efforts to help the initiative to achieve their goals.
“UM6P mobilizes its human and technical resources to support farmers and help them carry out diagnoses based on scientific foundations,” says the Outlook and adds that seven mobile laboratories travel through the country to carry out a free floor analysis. This also applies to UM6P laboratories in Benguerir.
Since the start of Al Moutmir initiativeOver 167,400 floor analyzes were carried out over 560,000 hectares.
Now the Al Moutmir program is trying to use more advanced technologies to continue its ambitious initiatives. The program of the program is now testing the laser -induced breakdown spectroscopy, which enables the analysis of a high volume of soil samples.
The technology also aims to reduce the costs to help farmers with their goals.
The outlook also referred to the phygital smart packaging solution, which was developed by the UM6P ecosystem startup-sensual-sensors, which enables the pursuit of NPK blend fertilizer bags in the local market.
The project alone offers 50 kilograms of fertilizer bags with electronic chips that contain data such as mixed formula, manufacturer, target region.
“As soon as the bags are scanned, they can be authenticated and persecuted to ensure that the farmer receives real products,” the report said and found that more than one million pockets were produced for the 2024-2025 agricultural season.
Dealers also started a project with GPS-Maroc through soil development, the OCP NTRICORPS and Moroccan fertilizer manufacturers, to map fertilizer points across the country in real time.
“The Moroccan market is now fully consuming the fertilizers using great -minor technologies,” the report celebrates. It promised that Al Moutmir will continue to offer a tailor -made support program, especially for small farmers via various platforms. The ultimate ambitions of the program are to help its beneficiaries to use good agricultural and effective practices in order to ensure vegetative growth, resilience of the climate and the efficiency of water consumption, emphasized the report.
The program has used 29,320 platforms to operate different sectors, including grain and legumes, olives, tree plants, vegetables, feed corn, oil seeds and quinoa.
“These platforms support the diversification of the plants, the technical innovation and the exchange of knowledge,” says the report, citing 16 open innovation laboratories.
Training and more
The programs and offers of the Al Moutmir initiative also include tailor-made training that supports farmers, cooperatives and young people.
Through the training, the beneficiary instructions from agronomists who carry out both field visits and field schools to “see” learning methods.
According to the report, over 17,500 training courses on classes and field schools were carried out.
The program also published over 120 videos in the context of a series in which farmers are supposed to help learning know-how and best practices for soil.
In addition, the Agripedia program, an agronomic online knowledge platform, started to serve farmers with library instructions, reports and multimedia content that are tailored to their needs of farmers, agronomists and students.
Commitment to the cattle population
Morocco has recognized challenges and expanded to influence the country cattle. Due to the continuing drought crisis and the serious lack of precipitation, Morocco took courageous measures, e.g.
In the meantime, OCP has expressed its commitment to contributing to Morocco in the drought battle through various initiatives.
At the beginning of this year, Al Moutmir started a new program that is dedicated to support for animal production cattle Farmers through a service offer that combines technical advice, formulations for feeding and the optimization of cattle practices.
“Two pilotons were activated in the Rhamna and Sidi Bennour regions,” says the report and states that this is done in cooperation with institutional, local and private stakeholders.
