Grain crop production in Morocco is expected to decrease in Marketing Year 2013/14 and will result in higher importation, mainly for wheat and barley. The wheat production is forecast to decrease by over 20 percent due mainly to a decrease of about 15 percent of the area planted compared to last year and to late and poor distribution of rainfall in some areas of production. The area planted this year is around 4.5 million HA (46 percent soft wheat, 22 percent durum wheat and 32 percent for barley). The Government of Morocco (GOM) has not issued its official grain production forecast yet, however many analysts expect the cereal crop to reach 7 million MT. Post estimates total grain production to be around 7.1 million MT, including 3.7 million MT of common and durum wheat and 1.7 million MT of barley.
