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COMPANIES<br />
The Spanish companies control the Spanish bean<br />
The hectares of greenhouses of bean <strong>in</strong> Morocco are 3,000 and the Spanish companies<br />
control direct or <strong>in</strong>direct way 60 per cent of the production and surface and 55 per cent<br />
of the foreign trade. The GPA company leads the surface of bean monopoliz<strong>in</strong>g<br />
10 per cent of the surface of this crop.<br />
By Rafael I. Losilla<br />
Morocco exported almost 113,000 tons of beans <strong>in</strong> the year<br />
20<strong>09</strong> of which almost 63,000 tons go to Spa<strong>in</strong>, do<strong>in</strong>g of this<br />
the most important dest<strong>in</strong>ation of the Moroccan producers.<br />
The importance of Spa<strong>in</strong> <strong>in</strong> Morocco at commercial level<br />
has <strong>in</strong>creased gradually and not only by commercial<br />
relations, but also by <strong>in</strong>vestments <strong>in</strong> production.<br />
ago the first Spanish <strong>in</strong>vestors arrived at Morocco with<br />
the <strong>in</strong>tention to develop platforms and productive fields<br />
of beans, based on the high yield of the crop and an<br />
approachable labour. 15 years later, the Spanish companies<br />
control between 55-60 per cent of the production and<br />
surface direct or <strong>in</strong>direct way and 55 per cent of the foreign<br />
trade.<br />
important companies like Azura, Idyl, Les Doma<strong>in</strong>es or<br />
Agafay have given up gradually this crop and this place<br />
has been taken of direct or <strong>in</strong>direct way by the Spanish<br />
companies.<br />
The companies<br />
Although the companies of the Hispanic-Moroccan<br />
capital become more and more important <strong>in</strong> the Moroccan<br />
surface, the GPA company leads the surface of bean <strong>in</strong> Morocco<br />
with 300 hectares, of which 200 belong to the company and<br />
100 to the partner producers.<br />
The control of the bean <strong>in</strong> Morocco is diversified and there<br />
are many producers and <strong>in</strong>dependent companies with surface<br />
of less than 50 hectares and many small producers that add<br />
less than 2 hectares and that work of free and spontaneous<br />
way, outside plans and commitments.<br />
This situation means 29 per cent of the 3,000 hectares of<br />
bean <strong>in</strong> Morocco, accord<strong>in</strong>g to the analysts of seeds consulted<br />
by F&H. The orig<strong>in</strong> of most of these small producers is Morocco.<br />
Spanish capital<br />
The Spanish companies are much organized and look at the<br />
Spanish market as much as at the French one. In fact, the<br />
platforms of Mercamadrid and Mercabarna have become<br />
important markets of the bean of Morocco. Mercabarna receives<br />
directly 12 per cent of the total Moroccan commercial bean and<br />
the case of Mercamadrid is that receives more than 60 per cent<br />
of its bean from North Africa. n<br />
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Bean percentaje surface <strong>in</strong> Morocco (2008)<br />
Source: F&H. (1) Estimate.