Morocco Lemon Trade Rebounds After Years of Struggle
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Roshan Amiri
- . May 29, 2025
- . Update: May 29, 2025 9:08 pm
The 2024/25 season saw the Moroccan lemon industry recover after four tough years of lower exports. Over the period October 2024 to March 2025, Morocco shipped 6,100 tons of lemons and made $2.7 million from them. The strong results of the first half of this marketing year exceed the volume of all previous six-month periods, while near-equal earnings show just how much the company has grown. After exports fell to 5,000 tons in 2023/24, the lowest level recently, the sector has now recovered.
Improvements in many areas contributed to the dramatic results. In 2024, advantageous weather supported greater production inside the company. With a fall in Turkish lemons by 33%, Europe and other regions offer new chances for Morocco to sell more produce.
During the 2022-23 drought, Moroccan citrus farmers suffered greatly, and problems in transportation made it tricky for the country to ship citrus to markets such as Russia. Turkish producers were making it more difficult for Moroccan exporters. More than half of all citrus exports from Morocco are sent to Mauritania. The British market is expanding fast, and trade with Russia and Canada has restarted after a short break. Regular deliveries of Moroccan lemons are once again arriving in markets in France and the Netherlands.
Morocco has achieved diversity in its exports by restoring old trading routes. After two years, shipments to the United States resumed, and after four years, Sweden began importing once more. The first deliveries of Moroccan lemons to Latvia and Kazakhstan have begun.
