ABSTRACT
Morocco’s rural areas are characterized by poor socioeconomic infrastructure, low levels of education, inadequate support services and an ageing farm population. Farmers are thus not equipped to face the challenges of an economy that is opening up to free market competition.The major causes of insufficient productivity in the agricultural sector according to Akesbi (2006) are:
• production still hampered by climate constraints; • human resources constrained by poverty and illiteracy; • land structures unfavorable to modernization; • farms and production systems still low intensity; • insufficient and unevenly distributed financial resources; • dangerously deteriorating natural resources.
