ALMAGHRIBIA — broadcast
20260926 193000 UTC
343 transcript segments
Google Cloud Speech-to-Text API (Chirp) + Gemini 2.5 Flash Non-Thinking
Data courtesy of The GDELT Project (https://www.gdeltproject.org/), from the Internet Archive TV News Archive.
Machine transcription. Treat it as a searchable index of what was broadcast, not a verbatim quotation record.

[00:00:00] to the quality of this production ... and its safety from the perspective of people's
[00:00:03] health.
[00:00:07] The discussion then evolved from food security to focus more
[00:00:11] on food sovereignty, which aims to place farmers
[00:00:14] is the particularity, if you and consumers at the core
[00:00:18] agricultural research that adapts to of agricultural policy by relying on sustainable agricultural methods and returning to
[00:00:22] thinking about local producers and their needs,
[00:00:25] instead of being dependent on market demands and what companies
[00:00:29] regarding fertilization. We discussed impose.
[00:00:33] The concept was adopted within a single
[00:00:36] international symposium, organized by the Food
[00:00:40] and Agriculture Organization in 1996.
[00:00:42] It was adopted in the future officially
[00:00:47] The goal of encouraging digitalization in 2002. We've been talking about this food sovereignty,
[00:00:50] especially in 2008, as you know, that
[00:00:54] crisis, the normal financial crisis of
[00:00:56] 2008,
[00:00:59] these elements, based on the brought it back to the discussion. The startup agricultural discussion intensified even more when the last pandemic,
[00:01:03] COVID-19, occurred between
[00:01:06] 1990 and 2022, and its severity increased, especially
[00:01:10] now with the Ukrainian crisis, which caused a problem as all
[00:01:13] agriculture. This countries, of course, during the Corona period, all
[00:01:17] countries closed their borders, and there was no more
[00:01:20] nationwide, various trade. And the current
[00:01:22] services, specifically in the crisis that occurred in Ukraine, in addition to the worsening problem
[00:01:26] of climate change and its effects on agriculture, this is the context that
[00:01:30] made food sovereignty return more
[00:01:34] the farmer on his clearly and become more acute now in all
[00:01:36] countries.
[00:01:41] Across the country, as is the case here in the Meknes
[00:01:45] region, efforts are being made to strengthen national
[00:01:47] with the aspiration achievements in the food assimilates sector and develop them
[00:01:50] based on what is currently needed in food.
[00:01:54] Therefore, the latter concept
[00:01:57] potassium, as you know, along was made the slogan of the 15th session of the International Forum. The
[00:02:01] theme of the forum was "The Green Generation for Sustainable
[00:02:04] Food
[00:02:07] almost 13 years ago regarding Sovereignty."
[00:02:10] The Green Generation strategy, according to the documents of the Moroccan
[00:02:13] Ministry of Agriculture, strengthens our country's agricultural achievements
[00:02:17] save 500 to 6000 by placing it in a central position among the countries
[00:02:21] the African Institute for Research of the Middle East and North Africa in terms of the general
[00:02:24] Come to average of covering national food needs.
[00:02:26] This strategy also seeks to enhance the
[00:02:30] role of the human element in the food production chain
[00:02:35] Come to and to work on creating a middle-class
[00:02:40] Come to agricultural
[00:02:45] irrigation. We bring it with generation. The session
[00:02:46] irrigation, with came after, as you know, and I am confident
[00:02:50] that the consumption patterns
[00:02:54] and the agricultural approaches after the pandemic
[00:02:57] will not be the same as
[00:03:01] before the pandemic. First, the
[00:03:06] talking about zinc, consumer's demand has changed, and second, even
[00:03:09] today, with climate fluctuations,
[00:03:12] with the
[00:03:16] water problems, there
[00:03:20] must be a comprehensive review
[00:03:22] of the production methods.
[00:03:26] And for this
[00:03:30] meet all stakeholders in reason, we wanted to show
[00:03:33] in agriculture, and encouraging this year how we can apply science
[00:03:36] in line with agriculture, because
[00:03:38] there is no
[00:03:42] other option
[00:03:46] other than reviews,
[00:03:50] first in the form and type
[00:03:53] of trees and seeds
[00:03:56] that will enable
[00:03:58] starting from the us to find out what seeds today
[00:04:01] can withstand the climate
[00:04:05] we are living in. Today, what
[00:04:09] companies that came from are the natural forms that can
[00:04:12] withstand this heat with this scarcity
[00:04:16] of water? And second,
[00:04:19] the review of our
[00:04:23] we talk about agriculture, agriculture. Do we still have an interest
[00:04:26] in continuing in a certain
[00:04:29] type of agriculture?
[00:04:33] that go into the livestock breeding. Some are in We question exporting,
[00:04:35] this is the importance of this especially all fruits
[00:04:38] namely trust and communication and vegetables that consume
[00:04:41] a large amount of water.
[00:04:48] university, in partnership This is important. The International Agricultural Forum in Meknes, held under the High
[00:04:54] Phosphate Group, and Phosboucraa experts here at Royal Patronage, lasted from the second to the seventh
[00:04:56] of last May. It was attended by 70 countries,
[00:05:00] including the United Kingdom, which was the guest of honor at
[00:05:04] It is impossible to talk about this session. The forum marks its return to the international
[00:05:07] agricultural arena after a three-year
[00:05:10] hiatus due to the pandemic.
[00:05:17] The forum spans an area of approximately 18
[00:05:20] hectares and includes ten different clusters, including
[00:05:23] the Regions and Institutions cluster, the International cluster, the Local
[00:05:27] Products cluster, and another for agricultural
[00:05:30] supplies, as well as the Livestock Breeding
[00:05:33] cluster and others.
[00:05:38] Achieving food sovereignty mainly involves encouraging agricultural
[00:05:42] research, promoting innovation, and transferring technology in the field,
[00:05:46] which was a goal among other objectives of the International
[00:05:50] Agricultural Forum in Meknes.
[00:05:53] The forum served as a scientific platform to showcase the latest
[00:05:57] innovations of researchers and experts in the field of agriculture,
[00:05:59] especially concerning digital agriculture,
[00:06:03] alternative agriculture,
[00:06:04] and sustainable agriculture.
[00:06:10] Exactly, in the
[00:06:13] Al Moutmir initiative booth, as you know, I explained
[00:06:16] to you before, it is an initiative launched
[00:06:20] by the OCP Group in 2018,
[00:06:23] and now we are working under the banner of
[00:06:26] Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, where we monitor
[00:06:30] agriculture crops. We offer many
[00:06:35] section for offers and services provided by
[00:06:38] Al Moutmir. In addition to this, we have
[00:08:27] We have digital applications such as the "Atmar"
[00:08:31] application and the "Marketing" application. Through these two
[00:08:34] applications, we supervise approximately 400,000
[00:08:37] farmers. The ministry has an impressive
[00:08:41] program. It has contracted with
[00:08:45] some scientific institutions
[00:08:47] and universities to give them more
[00:08:51] opportunities for research so that
[00:08:55] it becomes a platform that can
[00:08:58] respond to the demands of this,
[00:09:02] and as I told you , secondly,
[00:09:05] even modern and new technologies.
[00:09:08] We have to take this into account now,
[00:09:10] because there is
[00:09:13] a very important offer. We are now seeing in this
[00:09:16] cluster of startups, there are
[00:09:22] Senegal, that came from the Netherlands, that came from France
[00:09:25] afterwards. So there is an exchange of
[00:09:29] expertise. And this is what will make
[00:09:32] it possible, because when
[00:09:36] we cannot talk about Moroccan agriculture, because each region has
[00:09:39] its own specificities. Some have
[00:09:43] fruits. Some are, so each region
[00:09:47] has a specific need. And our goal
[00:09:50] is that after this forum,
[00:09:54] the regions will have come, the experts in each region will have come,
[00:09:57] and they will have approached and conveyed the problems they
[00:10:00] face in each region, and they will find
[00:10:05] the forum who can connect with them so that there
[00:10:09] is work and an effort made throughout the year.
[00:10:18] A number of research hubs were present at the International
[00:10:21] Agricultural Forum, including the National Institute of Agricultural
[00:10:25] Research and the OCP Group, which was
[00:10:28] present through its presentation of its contributions in the field of agricultural research,
[00:10:31] especially through its academic portal,
[00:10:34] represented by Mohammed VI Polytechnic University,
[00:10:38] which has an international reputation in sustainable
[00:10:43] climate
[00:10:44] changes.
[00:10:49] As you know, marginalized environments, especially
[00:10:52] desert areas, face several problems. They suffer from several problems, especially
[00:10:56] the problem of drought, the problem of climate changes,
[00:10:59] and especially the problem of salinity. So
[00:11:02] there are many lands that are affected by salinity,
[00:11:05] and also agricultural productivity in these
[00:11:08] areas decreases
[00:11:11] due to salinity. For this, we have carried out several
[00:11:14] projects, especially funded by
[00:11:18] the Phosboucraa Foundation, to find effective solutions
[00:11:22] for this problem of salinity and drought. These
[00:11:26] research programs focus on several crops,
[00:11:29] which are alternative
[00:11:32] crops that do not exist in desert areas.
[00:11:36] The importance of these crops is that they can
[00:11:39] withstand saline conditions, withstand drought conditions,
[00:11:42] and yield high production. These crops have an important
[00:11:46] role in achieving food sovereignty, because you have
[00:11:49] vast saline lands and saline groundwater.
[00:11:52] These sources
[00:11:56] need to be valued, and their valuation is done through these
[00:11:59] new crops, which are salt-tolerant crops
[00:12:03] that can withstand salinity. In this way,
[00:12:06] we can produce in these saline conditions and obtain high
[00:12:10] productivity compared to traditional agriculture. In this
[00:12:14] way, we can improve the income of farmers in the southern
[00:12:17] regions, and we can also increase
[00:12:20] the availability of fodder, because the problem
[00:12:23] of fodder is a big problem that livestock farmers face,
[00:12:27] especially in all Moroccan regions, and especially in
[00:12:30] agricultural
[00:12:31] desert areas.
[00:12:37] During the forum, the topic of alternative crops in fragile
[00:12:41] and arid regions was present through a seminar by researchers from
[00:12:46] in Sustainable Agriculture in Laayoune, affiliated
[00:12:48] with Mohammed VI Polytechnic University.
[00:12:51] Specializations.
[00:12:55] There are several platforms with different degrees of
[00:12:58] salinity. In terms of productivity that we have obtained
[00:13:01] in this first project,
[00:13:04] you can see that the productivity of forage crops
[00:13:08] is much better than that of traditional
[00:13:11] crops, for example. You can see that there is still
[00:13:15] enormous potential in the adoption
[00:13:18] of these crops, namely Setaria for example, in the yield
[00:13:22] per hectare, and also Blue panic grass. Blue panic grass
[00:13:26] was the crop that was truly appreciated by farmers.
[00:13:29] It is a perennial crop, and we will put a lot of emphasis
[00:13:33] and effort on this crop later in our research
[00:13:36] programs. So that's what we did in this project, we
[00:13:39] worked on capacity building, so we
[00:13:42] organized a lot of training sessions for
[00:13:46] farmers in the Laayoune region.
[00:13:49] This forum is an opportunity
[00:13:51] to
[00:13:55] the agricultural sector, especially farmers,
[00:13:59] those who provide consulting
[00:14:02] services, ministry officials,
[00:14:05] and private sector representatives.
[00:14:09] So, for us, this exhibition is an opportunity to present
[00:14:12] research results so that these researches are seen by farmers
[00:14:16] who have almost the same problems, and who can, for
[00:14:19] example, later try to use them to develop their productivity.
[00:14:22] In fact,
[00:14:55] at the farm level or at the field level,
[00:15:00] exhibition,
[00:15:03] with all stakeholders in the agricultural sector, including experts
[00:15:07] and researchers who present their research results, as we do
[00:15:10] here at the
[00:15:13] with the OCP Group, or the Cherifian
[00:15:19] in the South.
[00:15:22] Among the most important research hubs in agriculture is
[00:15:25] the one related to fertilization.
[00:15:29] increasing agricultural productivity without presenting the latest scientific
[00:15:32] developments in the field of fertilizers, their types,
[00:15:34] methods, and effects.
[00:15:37] You have spoken or explained that the
[00:15:41] plant prefers the nutritive elements that
[00:15:45] the soil solution contains. How do you
[00:15:48] explain or what
[00:15:52] will, of the soil solution? So, in fact, we
[00:15:55] are facing limits
[00:15:58] to how the plant absorbs nutrients or
[00:16:01] elements. So our intervention was
[00:16:06] with the ministry
[00:16:08] what aspects
[00:16:11] we can work on regarding the rationalization
[00:16:14] of fertilization. What do I mean by
[00:16:18] that? The rational use of fertilizers.
[00:16:20] I gave them examples of some
[00:16:23] fertilizers that we can save on, up to 5000
[00:16:27] dirhams per hectare in savings.
[00:16:30] I gave the example of potassium.
[00:16:32] Therefore,
[00:16:37] agricultural conditions of the land, soil, and leaf,
[00:16:40] we can manage our farm
[00:16:44] in a more
[00:16:45] rational way.
[00:16:50] The plant does not assimilate the elements that are at the level of the mineral
[00:16:54] elements with water. It cannot recover the
[00:16:57] elements like that, in quotation marks,
[00:17:00] solid. No, it recovers elements that are solubilized
[00:17:03] in water. This is what we call the soil solution. So the plant...
[00:17:07] apart from some exceptions, it will recover the
[00:17:10] elements it needs via the soil solution. It has no
[00:17:13] choice because if I give the example of nitrogen,
[00:17:17] nitrate for example, nitrogen goes with the plant when it
[00:17:21] water
[00:17:24] of water with the
[00:17:28] nitrates.
[00:17:31] Potassium, the element
[00:17:35] with nitrogen, constitutes a large
[00:17:37] percentage of the fertilizer budget in Morocco. We had an
[00:17:41] incident
[00:17:45] this element. We saved 100%
[00:17:47] of the fertilizer that
[00:17:51] people bring. We can
[00:17:54] dirhams, even 4000 dirhams per hectare. If we take the example
[00:17:58] of a 100-hectare farm, we are talking about
[00:18:01] 50 million in savings, 50 million in savings on one element, which is
[00:18:05] potassium. This is not easy. This is the first main element.
[00:18:08] The second element we talked about was the method
[00:18:11] of fertilization. We talked about
[00:18:15] the method of fertilization, whether it's through spraying
[00:18:18] or through
[00:18:24] drip irrigation. The research we did showed that
[00:18:27] some elements indeed give positive
[00:18:30] results through irrigation, but
[00:18:33] there are other elements that, unfortunately, require
[00:18:37] rethinking the method of their fertilization. Here, we are
[00:18:44] we are talking about magnesium,
[00:18:46] and other elements. The International Agricultural Forum in Meknes,
[00:18:49] which focuses on the national strategy called the Green
[00:18:53] Generation, allocated a significant portion of its
[00:18:56] clusters to innovation and the transfer of modern
[00:18:59] technology in agriculture. This innovation cluster featured
[00:19:03] the latest innovations related to irrigation water management,
[00:19:07] the use of alternative energy
[00:19:11] engagement in digital farming and agricultural
[00:19:13] digitalization. The digital farm
[00:19:17] is a farm where we use
[00:19:19] everything digital, starting from the electronic
[00:19:22] interface. What is the electronic interface? It means that when
[00:19:26] the farmer comes to you,
[00:19:29] you prepare all the digital tools for him to use in his
[00:19:33] farming,
[00:19:35] digital card. We prepare it for him.
[00:19:39] Secondly, for the place where he is located,
[00:19:42] we prepare for him, for example, if he has
[00:19:45] some farming, we
[00:19:49] give him the fertilizers that he can use on his farm.
[00:19:53] Secondly, if he has any projects he wants to do, farming, he has land
[00:19:56] and he wants support, we help
[00:19:59] him with his file to prepare it
[00:20:02] for him and help him to submit it to get his assistance. First, we
[00:20:06] have one there that has three sensors
[00:20:10] soil at the root of the tree,
[00:20:14] showing us the salinity of the soil.
[00:20:17] The second shows the humidity,
[00:20:20] and the third shows the temperature. Why did
[00:20:23] we do these three? It's because if the salinity is high,
[00:20:27] you get a notification on your smart
[00:20:30] phone telling you that your salinity is high,
[00:20:33] and you have a problem, either with your irrigation or you didn't water well.
[00:20:50] The first fan measures the water pressure.
[00:20:54] That water pressure, we have the first one so that
[00:20:57] another one comes
[00:20:58] out. It's
[00:21:01] the last one. If there's a difference between the entry
[00:21:04] and the exit, it means that there's
[00:21:08] no problem. If our
[00:21:10] salinity was high, what it shows us
[00:21:14] is that you have a blockage, and we need to see where the problem
[00:21:17] is. Secondly, if we have a system,
[00:21:21] we have low pressure, it means that you have a leak in the dripper.
[00:21:25] All of this comes as a notification on your mobile phone,
[00:21:29] and it shows you that your land is
[00:21:32] well watered.
[00:21:37] in the agricultural sector is to make agriculture in our
[00:21:41] country more flexible and competitive,
[00:21:44] and more attractive to young talents to create
[00:21:49] businesses that rely mainly on
[00:21:57] preserving water resources and achieving modern, sustainable
[00:22:03] system that we are presenting at the exhibition
[00:22:07] is a new system developed by
[00:22:10] Moroccan engineers who
[00:22:14] worked on it until it came into existence.
[00:22:17] It is a product called "E-Solution"
[00:22:20] that helps
[00:22:24] farm. It consists of three