Ahmed Hajjaji Director-General of the Moroccan Agricultural Development Agency that his country calls for foreign and local investors to bid for the rental of 21 thousand hectares of agricultural land under the agrarian reform plans, Morocco.
Hajjaji told Reuters in an interview late on Thursday, `We have set June 25 deadline for receipt of proposals by foreign and local investors. We expect the selection of the winners in October this year when the new agricultural season begins.`
He said the agricultural land offered for lease contains an area of more than 57 farms, each a hundred hectares and 136 farms ranging in size between 20 and 83 hundred hectares and a small farm of less than 20 hectares.
The Hajjaji referring to the country`s plan to invest more than 200 billion dirhams (33 Ñ 24 billion dollars) to develop agriculture in the period between 2007 and 2020 `Most of the proposed projects include the production of olive oil, citrus and other fruit trees.`
Friday, April 16, 2010
Ahmed Hajjaji Director-General of the Moroccan Agricultural Development Agency that his country calls for foreign and local investors to bid for the rental of 21 thousand hectares of agricultural land under the agrarian reform plans, Morocco.
Hajjaji told Reuters in an interview late on Thursday, `We have set Ju...