The new centre, which has an accommodation capacity of 450 trainees, includes three classrooms, a library, two workshops, a refectory, dormitories (40 beds for girls and 48 for boys), on-site accommodations and administrative facilities.

    Built on 2,400 square metres, the centre will provide trainings in arboriculture, cattle breeding, market gardening, phytosanitary processing, apiculture and medicinal and aromatic plants.

     The sovereign followed a presentation of the integrated programme of fruit arboriculture in the region and the aggregation project to promote milk industry in the province of Al Hoceima. The programmes are part of Morocco’s Green Plan.

    The first programme consists in 10 projects scheduled for 2010, benefiting 4,800 farmers from 42 rural communes.

    As to the integrated programme of fruit arboriculture in the region, it provides for implementing a total of 41 projects by 2020, for 2.36 billion dirhams. It is expected to benefit 132,317 farmers from the region.

    The aggregation project to promote milk industry in the province of Al Hoceima, which spans over two years, will ultimately benefit 400 stockbreeders.

    On this occasion, HM the king enquired about the project of building a regional centre for agronomical research in the region, worth 14 million dirhams.