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Morocco: Cannabis Planting - Eradication campaign goes on in Taounate
Kaoutar Tbabtou Moroccan Times
Saturday 17 Jun 2006 Cannabis Planting - Eradication campaign goes on in Taounate Province Action continues in Morocco's Northern provinces to combat cannabis cultivation. After the successful campaign launched last year in the Province of Taounate, the 2006 phase has started this month in the same area. The action started on June 5 and will continue until June 30. It concerns different communes of the areas of Taounate and adjacent Rhafsai, said a Province of Taounate statement. Like last year, the 2006 campaign is based on three main axes: eradicating cannabis in all targeted areas, judicially pursuing those who continue cultivating and marketing the plant, and providing the populations with alternative economic activities. This phase was preceded by a series of awareness campaigns which started in January 2006, using loudspeakers and distributing leaflets in mosques, popular markets, schools, and other public places. Awareness campaigns mainly targeted local populations, with special concentration on the youth, with the aim of sensitising them on the effects of cannabis on health and on the region's sustainable development process. According to the Taounate Province, the area cultivated with cannabis this year has attained 722 Ha, which constitutes a 67.43% decrease compared to last year. During the 2005 campaign, authorities eradicated an area of 2943 Ha of cannabis-planted lands. As part of the eradication project, a programme of alternative agriculture has been launched, providing the region's farmers with 600,000 olive-tree saplings, 150,000 carob saplings, in addition to the encouragement of revenue-generating activities. Last March, Moroccan permanent representative to the UN in Vienna Omar Zniber stressed the importance and efficiency of such moves. Based on a study jointly conducted by Morocco and the UN office on Drug and Crime (UNODC), Zniber said that, thanks to eradication campaigns, Cannabis output in Morocco was cut by 10% from 109,000 tons in 2003 to 98,000 tons in 2004. The results obtained from the 2005 and 2006 campaigns are regularly sent to the UNODC. http://www.moroccotimes.com/ http://www.ccguide.org.uk/
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