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Why Targuist is a growing area
- The national survey of 2004 (UNODC and the agency for the northern provinces) measured cannabis yields on plots at Targuist, as well as at Issaguen, Bni Boufrah and Bni Gmil in the same province (p. 56).
- Finances News Hebdo (2015) describes ploughed fields in the valley along the road from Issaguen to Al Hoceima through Targuist.
- Bellakhdar (2013, p. 127) reports the observation of Mouliéras's informant, made between 1872 and 1893, of kif and tobacco fields among the Beni Bounsar.
- Fifteen genebank lots of INRA Maroc, collected in September 2021, fall inside the border: six in the commune of Beni Ahmed Imoukzan, four in Beni Bounsar, three in Zarkat and two in Sidi Boutmim.
- The status is Active, from the 2004 survey, the 2015 report and the 2021 lots.
Extent and border
- No source gives the limits of a growing area round Targuist. The map border is approximate: it is the Cercle de Targuist with the town (its pachalik), about 800 km². The circle holds the rural communes of Beni Ahmed Imoukzan, Beni Bounsar, Beni Bechir, Zarkat, Sidi Boutmim, Bni Ammart and Sidi Bouzineb. It is named for the town the sources name and holds every lot.
- The two communes in the east of the circle, Bni Ammart and Sidi Bouzineb, have no lot and no source of their own.
- Where the border meets Ketama and Taounate it follows their lines. To the east and south-east it runs beside communes that are in no growing area. The area figure in the infobox is rounded from the border.
Sources
- Joseph (1975, p. 186) describes Ketama as administered from Targuist. This is an administrative fact of the early 1970s, not evidence of growing at Targuist.
- Bellakhdar names the Beni Bounsar as a tribe. The tribe's lands and the present commune of Beni Bounsar need not coincide.
- The genebank names each lot after its commune, and each lot is placed by its published point. Bnibchir 1 carries the name of Beni Bechir but its point lies in Beni Ahmed Imoukzan; Zarkt 3 (Imachehouden) carries the name of Zarkat but its point lies in Bni Gmil, in the Beni Boufrah area.