Morocco Agriculture and Fisheries

The harvest for 2001 has once again been hit by drought, but forecasts suggest that on average production levels will be up on the previous year, although fruit and vegetable production is down. On the whole Morocco's food industry has performed well over the past year with the fisheries market pre-eminent. The kingdom enjoys huge sea resources having territorial waters which extend 1.2mn km and a seacoast 3,500km in length. Morocco is the top fish producer and exporter in Africa and the Arab world with fish produce worth more than $600mn in 2000.