January 16, 2013

Morocco's grain imports significantly increased from the beginning of 2012-13 marketing year, totalling 450,000 tonnes of grains, including 210,000 tonnes of wheat and 180,000 tonnes of corn in December 2012.

This is according to the latest report of analysts of the Office National interprofessionnel des céréales et des légumineuses (ONICL) of Morocco.

Thus, since the beginning of the season-2012-13 grain shipments to Morocco reached the level of 3.23 million tonnes, against 2.62 million tonnes in the same period in the previous year. Wheat formed 1.77 million tonnes from the general volumes, as opposed to 1.42 million tonnes imported in June-December of 2011-12 marketing year (MY). It should be noted that Ukraine (0.64 million tonnes), France (480,000 tonnes) and Canada (410,000 tonnes) were the main suppliers of the grain.

As for the imports of corn, in the reporting period Morocco increased the index by 340,000 per year - to 1.37 million tonnes. At the same time, Brazil remained the leading supplier of the grain to the country (0.88 million tonnes).