Desire for Greener Land

Human Environment
Cropland per household (ha)
10,000
Implementation activities, inputs and costs
Initial Investment
Land user: Individual/household, small-scale land
users, common / average land users, mainly men
Population density: 10-50 persons/km 2
Annual population growth: 0.5% - 1%
Land ownership: individual, titled
Land use rights: open access (not organised)
(Mainly “melk” (private property, 52%) and
associations (13%))
Water use rights: (Mainly “melk” (private property,
52%) and associations (13%))
Relative level of wealth: very poor, which
represents 20% of land users; 60% of the total land
area is owned by very poor land users
There are no special investment costs. The following costs are
also required for the conventional cereal monocropping:
- animal traction (2 mules): 2703 US$
- cart: 203 US$
- metallic plough: 42 US$
- swing plough: 20 US$
- sickles (4): 12 US$
Lifetime of a swing plough is 10 years and, of all the other
equipment, is 30 years
Recurrent activities
Normal recurrent activities and labour costs include
- ploughing: 30 US$
- spreading the seeds: 10 US$
- harvesting: 15 US$
- collecting: 15 US$
There are no additional costs for lupin cultivation except the
seeds.
Importance of off-farm income: less than 10%
of all income: There are no major differences
Access to service and infrastructure: low:
health, education, employment (e.g. off-farm),
drinking water and sanitation, financial services;
moderate: technical assistance, market, energy,
roads & transport
Market orientation: subsistence (self-supply),
mixed (subsistence and commercial)
Mechanization: manual labour, animal traction
Livestock grazing on cropland: yes
Technical drawing
Establishment inputs and costs
The lupin plot occupies the upper part of the
watershed, characterized by very fragile soils
because of their thinness (20-40cm) and low
organic matter content. (Jamal Al Karkouri and
Issam Machmachi)
Inputs Costs (US$) % met by
land user
TOTAL 0 -
Maintenance/recurrent inputs and costs per ha per year
Inputs Costs (US$) % met by
land user
Labour
Agricultural
0 -
- seeds
42 100
TOTAL 42 100
Remarks:
Equipment and seed costs concern the hectare of cultivated land. The labour costs for a working day are 5 US$ per person.
SLM Technology: Crop rotation: cereals / fodder legumes (lupin), Morocco DESIRE – WOCAT 2012
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