All Africa
Government of Ethiopia (Addis Ababa)
An Ethiopian delegation held talks with Morocco’s Minister of Agriculture and Fishery Aziz Akhannouch in Rabat on Tuesday (May 13). Minister Aziz Akhannouch, warmly welcoming the Ethiopian delegation, highlighted the progress and successes made in implementing a strategy called Green Morocco Plan in the agriculture sector of the country and its concrete results, namely, job creation, adaptation of agriculture to climate change, increasing productivity, improvement of income, poverty reduction and food security, to the people of Morocco.
This strategy has enabled the Kingdom of Morocco to achieve many of the Millennium Development Goals. This success is attributed to the fact that the leadership of the country recognizes agriculture as the major growth driver of the economy. Foreign Minister Dr Tedros Adhanom, expressing his appreciation to the Green Morocco Plan and its positive results to the rural and small-holding farmers of Morocco, said that Ethiopia regards agriculture as an engine for growth focusing on the improvement of small holding farmers. He also said that Morocco’s strategies are similar with Ethiopia’s development strategies and underlined the need to share innovative and home-grown development ideas with a view to build on strengths to transform the economies of the two countries.
Ethiopia’s Minister of Finance and Economic Development Sufian Ahmed on his part noted that Ethiopia is making shifts on the way it does business capitalizing on the urgency to build a climate resilient green economy.
Minister Sufian indicated the importance of organizing expert meetings to learn best experiences in the agriculture sector in the years to come. Minister Aziz Akhannouch affirmed that his country is ready to share and draw best lessons in the said sector. Green Morocco Plan is Morocco’s strategy to promote agricultural development focusing on enhancing output of rural population and smallholder farming through providing better technical support.
