Over 60,000 Moroccans work in agriculture in Spain

Some 60,904 Moroccan expatriates work in the agriculture field in Spain, thus forming at least 6.3% of the sector's active population, according to statistics released on Thursday by Spain's labor ministry.

The Moroccans represent 38% of the foreign community working in this field, the source said, followed by Ecuadorians (20,692), Bolivians (3,306), Columbians (2,623) and Ukrainians (2,253).

The stats do not include the thousands of irregular Moroccans not registered in the social security system, and who are working mainly in greenhouse cultivations in Almeria and Murcia, southern Spain.