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The following are selected highlights from a report issued by a U.S. Department of Agriculture attache in Morocco:

“Morocco’s grain
area in 2010/11 is estimated at 4.93 million hectares, with 3.04
million HA planted with wheat and 1.89 million HA with barley. The
grain crop is developing nicely under good growing conditions. The GOM
revised total grain production forecast upward to 9 million tonnes, of
which 5.9 million tonnes is for wheat and 3.1 million tonnes for barley.

“Morocco’s wheat imports in 2010
reached 3.062 million tonnes, an increase of 30 per cent over imports
in 2009. Wheat imports from the U.S. totaled 394,784 tonnes and
accounted for 13 per cent share of the market.”