Officials expect a decline in France’s exports of soft wheat to Morocco in the 2026-2027 season after improved rainfall.
In a report published Tuesday, Reuters quoted Philippe Heusel, international president of French grain group Intercéréales, as saying that Paris exported 3.5 million tons of wheat during the 2025-2026 season amid a drought that affected Morocco’s harvest.
Heusel confirmed to Reuters that France is expected to export lower volumes of wheat to Morocco between September 2026 and May 2027.
Morocco experienced heavy rainfall in the previous season, which both revived Morocco’s crops while also damaging harvests due to floods.
On the sidelines of a meeting with Moroccan traders, Heusel, however, confirmed France has sufficient supplies to meet Morocco’s needs without any obstacles.
According to the same report, France harvested 32 million tons of wheat this year.
France supplied 600,000 tons to Morocco since the beginning of October, according to France’s National Union of Grain Foreign Trade, which estimated Morocco’s imports of French soft wheat at around 2.5 million tons from September to May.
Morocco introduced a three-month halt in soft wheat imports that began on June 1 to give local farmers more time to sell their wheat and increase domestic stocks.
In August, Moroccan state media outlet SNRTnews said Morocco would resume imports of soft wheat on September 16 as the country faces lower stocks and a shortage of locally collected wheat.
The report said the government will introduce a system to compensate wheat importers for the difference between the international price and the price at which wheat is supplied to mills.
In May, sector officials projected Morocco’s cereal harvest for this year to be at 90 million quintals.
Reuters also quoted Moroccan professionals, who expressed concerns over the situation in the Black Sea region, which has been witnessing instability that remains exceptionally high due to the ongoing Russian-Ukraine tensions.
“We hope to reach a solution to the situation in the Black Sea region so that the market can regain a degree of calm and stability,” the president of Morocco’s National Federation of Mills, Moulay Abdelkadr Alaoui, told Reuters.
He added that strong demand from Europe had reduced wheat supplies, pushing up prices.
