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Demonstration platforms

Because seeing is believing!

Al Moutmir offers a range of demonstration platforms in different provinces of the Kingdom and covering several crops (cereals & pulses, arboriculture, vegetables, etc). The demonstration platforms are a powerful outreach tool for demonstrating scientific recommendations and agricultural innovations.

Co-constructed and implemented in partnership with the agricultural ecosystem in particular the scientific ecosystem namely the National Institute of Agronomic Research (INRA), the Hassan II Agronomic and Veterinary Institute (IAV), the National School of Agriculture (ENA) and the Mohammed VI Polytechnic University of Benguerir. These platforms are installed in the fields of volunteer farmers and allow demonstrating the considerable impact of the adoption of the best agricultural practices on the yield and the quality of agricultural production, the income generated and on the balanced consumption of fertilizers.
Each platform relates to the application of the best inputs, agricultural operations & techniques, from tilling the soil to harvesting. This allows, as the crop cycle progresses, to compare between the impact of good practices versus the usual practices of the farmers. The objective is to create an emulation and induction effect carried by the farmers who hosted these demonstration platforms and who become real ambassadors of good practices and guarantee the continuity of the initiative.

These demonstration platforms benefit from close scientific monitoring provided by Al Moutmir agronomists and experts, mobilized from various national scientific institutions. An Integrated Crop Management Program (ICP) is set up for each platform and covers the different stages of the crop.

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A 100% digital monitoring for the demonstration platforms:

In order to build on the feedback of the demonstration platforms and facilitate its sharing with the ecosystem, Al Moutmir team developed a digital application called Agritrial. This application allows the digitalization of the agronomic management of demonstration parcels and real-time feedback in addition to detailed information on the evolution of platforms (phenological stages, stress, size, photos & videos of plants, etc.). All this information is made available to the scientific, academic and economic ecosystem. It is also the subject of an annual gadering within the framework of the Al Moutmir Open Innovation Lab.

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Exchange between Al Moutmir’s agronomist and the farmer–Wheat demonstration platform-Safi

Evaluation of a zucchini demonstration platform–El Jadida

Harvest of onions demonstration platform-El Jadida

Soil testing offer

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Soil testing offer

Everything starts with identifying soil needs!

Aware that soil testing is the first step towards a balanced fertilization, UM6P mobilizes its human and technical resources to support farmers and enable them to carry out this diagnosis on scientific grounds. Mobile laboratories travel across Morocco and carry out free soil testing. Other tests are also carried out at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University of Benguerir and at the national laboratories.

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Demonstration of soil sampling–Al Moutmir mobile program-Taounate

Farmers visiting the mobile soil testing laboratory-Al Moutmir mobile program-Taza

The Al Moutmir agronomist explaining to the farmers the result of their soil testing-Al Moutmir mobile program-Safi

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L’initiative Al Moutmir

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Al Moutmir initiative

Al Moutmir provides a multiservice offer to better support farmers

In partnership with the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Rural Development, Water and Forests and through Al Moutmir initiative, the Mohammed VI Polytechnic University of Benguerir mobilizes its team in order to support farmers especially the small ones. It therefore continuously stimulates innovation with the different stakeholders of the agricultural sector to respond with agility to the challenges of agriculture and to help find new adapted and accessible solutions for all.

Launched in September 2018, Al Moutmir is a multiservice offer including innovative and customized solutions to better serve farmers and especially the small ones. This initiative focuses on promoting the best agricultural, technical and governance practices and in particular balanced fertilization as a real lever for improving productivity while preserving natural resources.

Al Moutmir includes best in class products and solutions, agricultural extension services (soil testing, training sessions, demonstration platforms, monitoring and support, etc.), user-friendly technological solutions as well as a capacity building program for farmers, rural women, cooperatives and young leaders. It aims at providing farmers with the tools they need to move from a subsistence to a profitable and a sustainable business. The scientific approach is at the heart of Al Moutmir offer to guarantee the sustainability of the initiative.

From September 2022, Al Moutmir is carried by UM6P in order to further anchor the scientific approach that is the essence of the initiative. The latter will be able to ensure the link between applied research and the agricultural ecosystem in order to contribute to the implementation of sustainable and inclusive agricultural development models.

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Our conviction

We encourage the development of an economically viable and sustainable agriculture!

Our approach

Al Moutmir is based on a participatory and inclusive approach. Teams are permanently in the field, they connect with the communities, they learn from this close relationships with the ecosystem, which then allows them to develop and implement customized solutions with and for the ecosystem. They thus continuously stimulate the innovation loop with the various stakeholders to respond with agility to the challenges of the ecosystem and bring out new solutions, adapted and affordable to all.

Scientific approach

to ensure the sustainability of the offer

Partnership approach

to develop co-built solutions with and for the ecosystem

Farmer as the real agent of change

to support him/her to become a leader

Offers and services

Training and capacity building offer

Digital and technological offer

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For farmers

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For farmers

Al Moutmir provides a multiservice offer of innovative and customized solutions:

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Soil testing offer

A multi-target capacity building program

Demonstration platforms

No-till farming program

Al Moutmir mobile program

Al Moutmir Souks & Moussems program

New technologies & digital offers

Communication and extension channels

A team of agronomist engineers

The beating heart of the Al Moutmir program, young engineers mobilized to serve farmers on a daily basis

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Al Moutmir no-till farming program: the harvest looks promising

Capacity building offer

Offre de formation et de renforcement de capacités

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A multi-target capacity building program

The farmer, as the key player of the agriculture transformation

Agricultural transformation cannot be achieved without the farmer, the real agent of change. For this reason, Al Moutmir initiative invests primarily in farmers. Al Moutmir is setting up a multi-target and customized capacity building program to enable farmers to easily adopt best agricultural practices.This program is implemented with and for the farmer. Several training sessions covering the agronomic fields, managerial capacity building and soft skills were provided in 2019 for different targets.

Women capacity building offer

ElleMoutmir: Women, essential drivers for a sustainable rural development

Through ElleMoutmir program, we actively support women in rural areas to become agents of change. The objective is to develop their individual and collective agricultural and entrepreneurial capacities and encourage their networking for the achievement of common and impacting actions.

ElleMoutmir includes four programs to meet the needs of rural women:

Women farmers program

This program includes close agronomic support for women farmers in different provinces of the Kingdom, training and promotion of peer-to-peer outreach as well as networking support and common actions implementation.

Women cooperatives program

This program targets cooperatives and professional women organizations working on the valorization of agricultural and local land products. The objective is to support them in building a resilient and sustainable business. The services offered include local agronomic support, equipment and mechanization in addition to capacity building trainings (technical, business and soft skills).

Women agri-retailers program

This program brings to women retailers working in the fertilizer sector a capacity building offer based on technical support, equipment, networking, business meetings coordination with Al Moutmir partners and support in the diversification of products and services (Smart Blender, extension services, inputs and more).

Young women program

Tailored programs are provided to meet the need of each identified group. These programs help young leader women in the identification of entrepreneurship opportunities, capacity building as well as technical and administrative support for the creation of small businesses or cooperatives.