(3 Jul 2024)
MOROCCO CORK HARVESTING
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Rabat – 26 June 2024
1. Various of opening a wine bottle in a restaurant in Rabat city centre
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Kenitra – 13 June 2024
2. Sign announcing the start of the cork harvesting season
3. Various of cork harvesting using new battery-powered machines
4. Christiano Carvalho, administrator of the Amorim Portugal Group showing the new techniques of cork harvesting to Abderrahim Houmy, the general director of the National Agency for Water and Forests
5. SOUNDBITE: (French) Abderrahim Houmy, General Director of the National Agency for Water and Forests:
"It’s a technology that will protect the trees and cause them less injuries. The second objective is to increase the cork harvest. Thanks to this technology, we can get large-size boards and avoid small pieces that have a low value in the market. The third objective is to better adapt to the harvesting season because, with climate change, we noticed that this period is becoming very variable and very short."
6. Various of cork harvesting by Moroccan workers
7. Cork harvesting machines exhibited on a table
8. SOUNDBITE (French) Francisco Carvalho, general manager of Amorim factories in Portugal and Morocco:
"In the partnership between our company and all the other industrialists, we are ready to share all the experience we had in Portugal as well as all the new technologies we are developing with a huge investment in research and development."
9. Various of traditional method of cork harvesting using axes
10. SOUNDBITE (French) Mohamed Anas, President of the Moroccan Association of Cork Industrialists:
"With this machine, we will work in a cleaner and healthier way. This means that the machine will take care of the tree’s bark which will result in fewer injuries as it was the case in the past when we used axes. We will also have larger boards and fewer small pieces. It will bring a better market value."
11. Various of a training session for Moroccan workers on the new technology
12. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Hamid Belabid, technician team leader:
"The market value will increase both for the cork and the technicians who will be using the new machines. One of the benefits of this machine is that it allows us to know the depth of the cork in the tree we want to work on."
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Sale – Rabat Province, 15 June 2024
13. Various of cork storage belonging to the National Agency for Water and Forests
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Rabat – 26 June 2024
14. Various of corks being put on display at restaurant in Rabat city centre
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Next time you pop open a bottle of wine, spare a thought for what goes into the cork.
In Morocco the harvesting of natural cork is going through a tech transformation – dropping the humble axe for smarter, more efficient technology.
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Morocco is known for its robust, full bodied red wines, but perhaps lesser known for the corks that stop the bottles spoiling before they are popped.
Now, cork harvesting in Morocco is being spruced up – with the introduction of modern harvesting equipment that will speed up the process and cause less damage to trees.
Traditional methods using an axe cause damage to trees, creating openings where disease can infiltrate, threatening their health and longevity.
A pilot programme to train cork technicians is underway in the the Rabat-Salé-Kenitra region with the aim of the new practices being rolled out across Morocco by 2025.
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