During the previous agricultural season, cereals were supplied from 25 countries including Europe, North and South America and Asia, said the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Rural Development and Water and Forests, in response to a written question on how to cope with the impact of the Russian-Ukrainian war on agricultural imports.
Thus, despite the current climatic conditions and geopolitical factors, Morocco is no longer content to rely on traditional sources of grain imports, a significant portion of which came from Europe and North America.
In this sense, and until the end of February 2022, Argentina and Brazil accounted for 41% of grain imports, according to data provided by the Ministry of Agriculture. The Ministry of Agriculture considered that, thanks to the strategy of diversification of sources of supply of cereals, Morocco has been able to be protected from the impact of external fluctuations, due to the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine, which are respectively the second and third supplier of soft wheat to the Kingdom.
Morocco imported 5.6 million quintals of soft wheat and 500,000 quintals of Ukrainian barley, out of the usual share of Ukraine on the national market, which amounts to about 8.7 million quintals of soft wheat and 670,000 quintals of barley, according to data provided by the Ministry of Agriculture in response to the written question.
The same ministry confirmed that the remaining quota of soft wheat and barley that Morocco used to import from Ukraine can be covered in a fluid way by other sources, including the European Union and Argentina, thanks to the strategy of diversification of grain supply sources.
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