Do “March’s descents” open the door to Moroccans’ exit from the drought crisis?

With Morocco recorded important rainfalls that are still continuing, during the month of March, due to the effects of the Atlantic Air depression “Jana”, questions begin about the possibility of the year 2025 a break with the past years of drought that exhausted the Kingdom.

Omar al -Kettani, an economic expert, stipulated that the falls will continue until the beginning of April because of the possibility of “making expectations for the exit of the year 2025 without its predecessors.”

Al -Kettani said that these arms, which came late, “will be very positive in the medium term, and will be reserves for the next year, whether at the level of drinking water or for watering.”

The economist reported that the bet is the possibility of contributing to the current fall in providing pasture of livestock to contribute to the recovery of the national herd, which is clearly exhausted by drought.

The spokesman stated that putting expectations for the exit of this year without the “dry” stigma, awaiting the continuation of the fall until April, which is the sufficient period for the agricultural sector to be “positive”.

Al -Kettani called for the exploitation of the current period, in which the rains are being bet on to achieve an economic recovery, to think about “alternatives to Morocco’s graduation for the first time from this situation, and to invest in the human element”, stressing the importance of postponing the issuance of the Finance Law every year to the month of March as long as the Kingdom continues in this situation.

On the other hand, Mohamed Baza, an international expert in managing water resources, ruled out that Morocco be on the outskirts of the exit from the consequences of drought this year or in the future.

“All possibilities are coming when it comes to rain, but the past decades differ from the current global situation where climate change has become very sharp, and with it it has become assumptions and expectations in this regard very difficult.”

He continued: “In 2021, there was a respected agricultural production in Morocco, but then years of retreat came, and this was in light of the succession of drought, which means that the Kingdom lives in a completely not.”

To dispel the suspicions of the Moroccan situation of drought, the spokesman called on the authorities to “form a national concept for this phenomenon, while determining its sharp and weak standards until the assumptions of each government state end and each chapter on this matter.”

The spokesman concluded that “Morocco is in a global situation where drought has become sharp, and it has been living for years the effects of climate change, and it is excluded that the Kingdom will move away from this situation except in a year or less in the future, provided that the effects return again,” stressing that “even if the rain of March continues, it is not possible to put assumptions for the exit of the current year from the circle of climate effects, including drought.”