Minister of Interior: “An initial financial envelope of one billion dirhams will be allocated to the weekly market rehabilitation program✍️👇👇👇

Minister of Interior: “An initial financial envelope of one billion dirhams will be allocated to the weekly market rehabilitation program✍️👇👇👇

The Minister of the Interior, Abdelouafi Laftit, stated today, Tuesday, in the House of Advisors, that an initial financial envelope of one billion dirhams will be allocated to the program to rehabilitate the weekly markets, which the ministry prepared with its partners.

Laftit explained, in response to questions from a number of advisors during the weekly session of oral questions, that this program will be funded by the Ministry of Interior (500 million dirhams), the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries (250 million dirhams), and the Ministry of Industry and Trade (250 million dirhams). dirham).

The Minister stressed that this “ambitious” program aims to overcome the imbalances experienced by the weekly markets, by organizing areas of economic activity, reviving local products, strengthening competitiveness and sustainable development, and improving supply and working conditions for merchants, craftsmen, and market leaders, in a participatory framework with the two aforementioned ministries.

The same speaker added that the Ministry of the Interior, in parallel with these measures, is working on financial, technical and legal support for the groups in order to develop and modernize local public facilities and equipment of a commercial nature, especially the weekly markets, indicating that this support “falls within a new vision for reform, based on a group Among the principles aimed at modernizing these equipment, improving their services, and developing methods of managing them.”

The number of weekly markets, according to the data contained in the minister’s answer, is 822, 753 of which are located in the rural area, and 69 in the urban area.

On the other hand, Minister Laftit reported that the revenues of wholesale markets, at the level of territorial communities, exceed 400 million dirhams, while their turnover reaches 7 billion dirhams, explaining that the number of official wholesale markets for vegetables and fruits in Morocco amounts to 30 structured markets, in addition to eight parallel markets. Unstructured.

He pointed out that the Ministry of the Interior is working on preparing a legal framework for wholesale markets that aims to regulate their creation and rehabilitation, and determine the necessary equipment and services that must be provided in them, in addition to overcoming the current management patterns “that contribute greatly to the exacerbation of the problems that the sector is known for,” by adopting Modern methods of management.