Morocco is the world's tenth biggest importer of grain and its imports fluctuate according to the size of its domestic harvest, which last year was hit by a combination of a shortage of rain and severe flooding. "Floods damaged about 5 percent of wheat growing areas in Gharb. This is nothing compared to last year's catastrophe from the flooding here," said Jilali Benkroun, head of the farmers' association in the Gharb region.
Agriculture Ministry figures showed that for Morocco overall, farmers had increased the area under cereals by 36 percent on last year, and that rainfall was 39 percent higher than the same time in the 2009-10 season.
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