Meknes - The 7th National Agriculture Conference, held under the theme "Family Farming", opened on Wednesday in Meknes in the presence of Guinean president Alpha Condé and Mali head of state Ibrahim Boubacar Keita
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Held in partnership with the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), this event is attended by prominent figures as Spanish agriculture and food minister Miguel Arias Canete, French minister of agriculture, food processing and forests Stéphane Le Foll, Saudi agriculture minister Dr Fahd Bin Abdulrahmane Bin Suleiman, Malian rural development minister Bakary Treta and Ivorian minister in charge of the agriculture department Mamadou Songafowa Coulibaly.
This edition is also attended by José Graziano da Silva, director general of FAO, in addition to some cabinet members and ambassadors accredited to Morocco.