page_title: M'Hamid El Ghizlane
section_title: Economics
hierarchical_section_title: M'Hamid El Ghizlane / Economics
caption_attribution_description: English: IDPCM Ksar M'Hamid sanae:220117
context_page_description: M'Hamid El Ghizlane or Lamhamid Ghozlane is a small oasis town in Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet, Morocco, with about 7500 inhabitants.
context_section_description: The people of M'Hamid lived according to the principles of self-sufficiency for hundreds of years but due to reduced or even absent winter rains since the 1970s agriculture provided and less income and was abandoned almost entirely. In addition, a fungal disease (Fusarium oxysporum) has significantly affected the date palms which were already weakened by the drought.
  In addition, M'Hamid was always a center for traveling nomads and caravans. Today the town is the starting point for tourist camel and 4x4 safaris into the desert.
  The weekly open-air market (souk) is held on Monday.
caption: View of an ethnographic museum within the qasba of M'hamid.
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