TRAINING WORKSHOP ON SUCCESSFUL
MODELS OF FARMER BASED ORGANIZATIONS
Izmir – Menemen, Republic of Turkey
Country Presentation : Morocco
Jannary 2016
Summary
1.
COOPERATIVES IN MOROCCO
2.
MOROCCAN AGRICULTURAL POLICY: GREEN MOROCCO PLAN
3.
IMPORTANCE OF PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION IN THE
IMPLEMENTATION OF MOROCCO GREEN PLAN
4.
AGRICULTURAL ORGANIZATIONS LEGAL FRAMEWORK:
INTERPROFESSION LAW
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COOPERATIVES IN MOROCCO
History Cooperatives in Morocco
 First Step : Implantation of cooperatives by the authorities of the frensh
Protectorate for political reasons in 1937.
 Second Step : Public intervention in the management of cooperatives
During the period 1956-1983. Legal framework, Creation of the ODCO in
1962, grants and supervision
 Third Step : Since 1983, Disengagement of the State from cooperatives
running from and removal of certain preferential benefits granted to
cooperatives.
Law 24/83 : Orientation towards the autonomy of cooperatives and
enhancing capacities of cooperative human resources, creation of
cooperatives unions
 From the year 2000 : Return of Cooperatives as main producer
organization model in response to national priorities and human
development initiatives. Role in the creation of employment, integration
of women into working life, the organization of the informal sector ...
COOPERATIVES IN MOROCCO
Review of the legal framework for Cooperatives: Law 112.12
 Simplification of incorporation procedures cooperative and deleting the prior
agreement to exercise.
 Membership possibility of legal persons in order to boost this sector.
 Enhancing transparency and governance support.
 Strengthening the rights of members.
COOPERATIVES IN MOROCCO
Statistical Profile of Cooperatives in Morocco
Number Cooperatives
13 480 Cooperatives in Morocco
336 159 Cooperant
Coopératives
nationales
40%
60%
Coopératives agricoles
Feminine Agricultural Cooperatives
679
Répartition des coopératives agricoles par branche
d'activité
50%
40%
30%
20%
41%
30%
24%
18%
27%
20%
20%
6%
10%
7%
8%
0%
ELEVAGE
COLLECTE &
COMMERCIALISATION
DU LAIT
APICOLE
% des coopératives
APPROVISIONNEMENT
% des adhérents
AUTRES
MOROCCAN AGRICULTURAL POLICY: GREEN MOROCCO PLAN
The Kingdom of Morocco has launched, since 2008 an innovative agricultural strategy in the
long term for a competitive agriculture, socially integrated and sustainable.
This policy aims to accelerate growth, reduce poverty and ensure the long term sustainability
of agriculture in order to consolidate its integration into national and international markets.
The Green Morocco Plan (PMV) is supported by two pillars :
Pillar I: focused on accelerated development of high value-added agriculture. The goal is to
consolidate and develop efficient agriculture, suited to the market rules, with a new wave of
private investment, organized around new models aggregation;
Pillar II : focuses on small farming in disadvantaged areas. its goal is to develop an approach
to diminish poverty by significantly increasing agricultural incomes of the most vulnerable
farmers.
For these two pillars, food security considerations, climate change and the preservation of
natural resources, promotion of agricultural investment, rational management of water and
land as well as scientific research applied to the field Agricultural occupy a prominent place,
in addition to cross-factors such as water, land
MOROCCAN AGRICULTURAL POLICY: GREEN MOROCCO PLAN
GDP: 60-90 Billion Dh
Agriculture as the major engine of economic and
social development
Pillar I
Development of a modern
agriculture:
Pillar II
Upgrade solidarity:
Social Investment and
fight against the
agricultural poverty
Investment:
100-150 MDS Dh Public /
Private on 10 years
Industrial Investment to
high productivity/ added
value
Occupation: +1 to 1.5 million jobs
Poverty reduction in the root: 2-3 x income for 3
million rural
More efficient management of water resources
(from 20 to 50% savings)
Recasting of the sectoral framework and improvement of cross-cutting factors
Land Tenure
Water
ALE
National
Market
Doing
business
Interprofessi
ons
Reforms
Preserving natural resources / environment
IMPORTANCE OF PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION IN THE IMPLEMENTATION
OF MOROCCO GREEN PLAN
The "Production Chain" approach:
Strategic choice made by the Green
Morocco Plan to upgrade and
modernize the main agricultural sectors
Objectif
Development of a dynamic agriculture
meet optimally the interests of the
various players in the value chain
(upstream / downstream)
The
program
contracts:
indispensable tool for the upgrade
and modernization of the main
agricultural sectors.
Approch
Contracts between the State and the
inter: between the two parties
signing contracts-programs setting
development goals of the main
agricultural sectors.
Primary role of the interprofessional organization.
Need for credible and representative interlocutors.
Interprofessional dynamics through the involvement and consultation between
the State and the private operators.
INTERPROFESSION OOGANIZATION LAW
Legal framework of the interbranch organization:
Milestone in the execution of program contracts for the Green Morocco
Plan implementation
• Having a global, concerted and unified to meet effectively the problems of
upgrading courses
• Establish a legal and institutional framework for recognizing the inter, as such,
and promote good governance and decision making between players
 Having a single interlocutor and representative of powers public;
 Allow inter dispose of financial resources;
clean and permanent to fund their programs and operation.
INTERPROFESSION OOGANIZATION LAW
Local level Cooperatives and Producers Associations
Provincial level Provincial Producers Associations
Regional Level Regional Producers Associations
National Level Federation of Producers
Interprofession Federation of producers and
Federation of Agro- Industries
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