Production and merchandising of plant resources from the province of Taza (N of Morocco). In order to quantify values of the plant diversity in the province of Taza (N of Morocco), as approach of the environmental economy, an investigation and land prospecting raised real direct values of the local flora. The flora identified in the study area counts 140 species, corresponding to 55 botanical families and represent 3.11% of the national specific richness. The spontaneous species such Capparis spinosa, Muscaria comosum, Ziziphus spp. and Origanum spp. constitute a source of particular income for rural women and children. They occupy the local population for varying periods of the annual growing season: 17.3±7.76 days/year (Origanum compactum), 17.5±5.00 d/year (Muscari comosum) and 54.0±18.1 d/year (Macrochloa tenacissima). For the cultivated species, the plots are small and located in mountainous areas, and the arboreal species, Prunus dulcis and Olea europaea, provide more incomes, with respectively 1,825 ±2,142 and 3,788 ±2,602 dirham (MAD)/fellah (farmer). In addition to local uses of the species inventoried, we recorded important national and international traffics of the plant biomass harvested. The direct services provided by these resources, besides their indirect functional values, argue for the local flora conservation.
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