Hello Morroco

With its sandy beaches, long hours of sunshine and rich cultural heritage, tourism is a major source of foreign earnings, with over eight million tourists visiting Morocco in 2009. The government has ambitious plans to more than double that number over the next decade.

The warm climate and coastal rains allow for cereal production of winter wheat and barley, with vegetables, fruits, grapes, olives and pulses grown during the summer. Increasing irrigation is opening up the production of other export crops such as tea, sugarcane, cotton, tobacco, sunflowers and soybeans.

The country has four mountain ranges which add to its insular feel. Acting like huge barricades, the Rif Mountains stretch along the Mediterranean, while the Middle-, High- and Anti-Atlas mountains run in a diagonal swathe down the middle of the country from the north-east to the south-west.