Professional sources: Morocco might seek US investment to establish poultry farms to boost local production

A meeting between Morocco’s Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries, Rural Development, Water, and Forests, Ahmed El Bouari, and a delegation from the administrative council of the poultry industry’s Interprofessional Federation last Friday concluded with “the need to identify a geographical area for establishing industrial farms to breed poultry grandparent stock.”

A well-informed professional source told Hespress AR that “Minister El Bouari directed sector stakeholders to seek foreign investors in order to resolve the geographical space issue.”

The source added that industry professionals “have proposed a U.S. company take on this task, as it’s a major hurdle to setting up these facilities, especially since finding available land in the Casablanca-Settat region is nearly impossible.”

It mentioned that “the ministry is willing to support this foreign investment, as long as there is local Moroccan involvement.”

The Hespress AR source added that “the goal of the meeting was to provide Morocco with locally produced breeding stock, helping the country avoid the high cost of importing them from neighboring Spain.”

During the meeting, industry professionals emphasized the “impossibility of removing intermediaries,” according to the same source, which highlighted their “essential role in this production chain.”

A statement from the Poultry Sector Interprofessional Federation, following the meeting, noted that “the idea of setting up farms to breed grandparent stock (grands parentaux) for meat production was discussed, with the aim of supplying the domestic market with breeding chicks.”

In this regard, the ministry has expressed its readiness to support any investment in this strategic sector as part of our country’s food sovereignty.”

The statement from the Poultry Sector Interprofessional Federation highlighted that, in line with the opening of the Moroccan market, imports of day-old chicks have been exempted from customs duties.

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