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Best Management Practice of Nutrient of Olive Orchards in Rainfed and Irrigated Areas of Morocco

IPNI-2013-MAR-1

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Introduction In Morocco, olive trees area is currently estimated at around one million hectares of which 80% are in the productive age. The Green Morocco Plan expects the extension of these groves to more than 1. 2 million hectares within 2020. The olive’s average production between 2009 and 2012 was 1. 2 million tons in average against 700,000 tons between 2005 and 2008. The increase of the production is mainly due to the efforts of planting, while yields remain low. Read more

Year of initiation:2013
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Interpretive Summary

2017

This experiment began in 2014 with the objective to assess the effect of improved methods for nutrient recommendations in olive orchards in Morocco. Two on-farm experimental sites were selected in the irrigated and rain-fed areas of Marrakech and Essaouira provinces. The planting density were 204 trees/ha under irrigated and 25 trees/ha under rain-fed conditions.

2016
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This experiment started in 2014 with the objective to assess the effect of improved methods for nutrient recommendations for olive orchards in Morocco. Two on-farm experimental sites were selected, with olive orchards in irrigated and rain-fed areas of Marrakech and Essaouira provinces. The planting density was 204 and 25 trees/ha at irrigated and rain-fed sites, respectively.

2015

This experiment started in 2014 with the objective to assess the effect of improved methods for nutrients recommendations in olive orchards in Morocco. Two on-farm experimental sites were selected with olive orchards in irrigated and rainfed areas of Marrakech and Essaouira provinces, respectively. The planting density was 204 and 25 trees/ha at irrigated and rainfed sites respectively.

2014

This study was initiated in 2013 in the Tensift-Al-Haouz region of Morocco. The objective is to assess the effect of improved methods for nutrients recommendations in olive orchards. Two on-farm experimental sites were selected with olive orchards in irrigated and rainfed areas of the provinces of Marrakech and Essaouira, respectively. The planting density was 204 and 25 trees/ha at irrigated and rainfed sites, respectively.

2013

This study was conducted under rainfed and irrigated farming conditions in the Tensift-Al Haouz region in collaboration with INRA Marrakech. Two on-farm experimental sites were selected with olive orchards in irrigated and rainfed areas of Marrakech and Essaouira provinces, respectively. At each site, four treatments were used, viz. , plot without additional fertilization, farmer practice (FP), fertilization based on nutrient removal, and fertilization based on foliar analysis.

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2013

Project Description

Publications

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Improved Fertilization Boosts Olive Production in Morocco Olives are one of the most important fruit crops in Morocco. The country’s fruit production has nearly doubled in the last ten years. But this higher production is mainly due to increased tree planting as yields remain low. Nutrient deficiencies and imbalanced fertilization remain a primary constraint to higher yields. IPNI cooperated within a study that evaluated current farmer practices for 36 olive orchards. The goal was to test whether improved fertilizer recommendations could boost olive production.
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Project Leader

Sikaoui, INRA Marrakech

Project Cooperators

Bouizgaren, INRA Marrakech
El Antari, INRA Marrakech

IPNI Staff

H. Boulal

Location

Africa \ Northern Africa \ MAR

Topics

best management practices

olive