Beekeeping in Morocco: focus on honey production

L'apiculture au Maroc: focus sur la production de miel

Abdelkarim Moujanni (1) , Abdel Khalid Essamadi (2) , Anass Terrab (3)

1 Département d’Agroalimentaire et de Biologie Appliquée
2 Laboratoire de Biochimie et Neurosciences, Equipe de Biochimie et Toxicologie Appliquées
3 Universidad de Sevilla = University of Seville

Beekeeping is an agricultural sector that has a special character in Morocco. It is virtually present in different regions. The apiarian potentialities in Morocco are important and remain under exploited. Honey production is stagnating because of many difficulties concerning repopulating colonies despite governmental efforts to modernize the sector. This review is to present a synthesis about the sector of beekeeping and honey production in Morocco. It will allow describing the situations, to understand the challenges faced by the Moroccan beekeeping by focusing on: bee farming, honey production, professional organization, marketing and regulatory issues. The main issues of this sector is the preservation of the Saharan yellow bee, increasing honey production and productivity of the hives, the application of good hygiene practices, enhancing honey quality, regulatory revision, adjusting the current model of professional organization, structuring of honey marketing channels and finally conclude with recommendations and prospects.

Mots clés: Honeys; Challenges; Morocco; Review; Perspectives; Beekeeping

Domaines: Agriculture, économie et politique

Abdelkarim Moujanni, Abdel Khalid Essamadi, Anass Terrab. L'apiculture au Maroc: focus sur la production de miel . International Journal of Innovation and Applied Studies, 2017, 20 (1), pp.52-78. ⟨hal-01464924⟩