Russia’s Ambassador to Morocco Vladimir Baibakov said that Russia is ready to supply wheat to Morocco at a reasonable price given the new geopolitical conditions and the exacerbation of energy and food crises, reported Russian agency TASS.
Baibakov said that Morocco is one of Russia’s leading trade and economic partners in Africa. Russia and Morocco have a reciprocally beneficial relation as they purchase from each other goods in demand, he said.
“Coal and petroleum products command a large part of Moroccan imports, while Russia purchases citrus fruits and fish,” the Ambassador said.
Baibakov recalled that, after the coronavirus pandemic, “trade turnover between the two countries surpassed the $2 billion mark again and it keeps rising.”
The drought-related shortage of Canadian durum wheat production has driven up the price of durum wheat and by-products in Morocco.
President of the National Federation of Moroccan Mills, Moulay Abdelkader Alaoui, recently warned that Morocco’s domestic stores of durum may barely last two to three months, explaining that climate issues in Canada, including drought and rising temperatures, have severely affected the country’s durum wheat production.