Agriculture in Tunisia: a difficult season
Food

Agriculture in Tunisia: a difficult season

Thu, 2016-09-08 10:15

The month of September marks a difficult 2015/2016 agricultural season that is ending and a new season that will start in Tunisia.

The agricultural sector is undoubtedly the weak link of the value chain this year and continues to drive economic growth down. The decline in production of olive oil has greatly harmed agricultural production and at the same the country's economic growth.

According to the National Statistics Institute (INS) , a decrease of 3.6% of the sector's value added was recorded at the end of the second quarter of the current year and a fall of 35.1% in exports value and volume of the agricultural and food industries has been observed in the month of July 2016 against a respective increase of 118.6 % and 85.6 % a year earlier.

[full French article here | Photo by Citizen59]

agriculture tunisia
Agriculture in Tunisia: a difficult season
  • Have your say here!Leave your comments, ask your questions and share your ideasIf you have already registered in our website,
    Log in and you are ready for leaving your message    If you haven't already registered in our website,
    please create a new account by clicking Register

Good practices and European projects map

@AgoraMedSpring

Good practices and European projects map

About the author

Medspring Agora team's picture

The Euro-Mediterranean AGORA is a way to engage the civil society in the institutional and policy dialogue on research and innovation with the aim of becoming an integral part of the decision making and governance processes.

The Agora is an important component of the broader MEDSPRING project, supported by the European Union with the aim of strengthening the Euro-Mediterranean dialogue and cooperation on research and innovation.

Copyright

Licence

Also on MedSpring

Modernisation of Algerian agriculture to help achieve food security

Modernisation of Algerian agriculture to help achieve food security
Efforts to raise output and deepen modernisation in Algeria's agriculture sector are gaining traction through a combination of...

Water-Energy-Food-Ecosystem Nexus in the Mediterranean

Water-Energy-Food-Ecosystem Nexus in the Mediterranean
Seeking examples of best practices. The European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC), the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM)...

The PRIMA initiative

The PRIMA initiative
In recent years, the agricultural sector in the Mediterranean has been suffering from severe water shortages and decreasing crop...

Tag cloud

agriculture Algeria biodiversity brokerage climate change cooperation COP22 desalination Drought egypt EMEG energy Energy efficiency environment euromed family farming food food security greece Hackathon infographic innovation interview Irrigation jordan Lebanon livestreaming Malta Mediterranean MENA migration morocco nexus nile olive Organic farming palestine permaculture renewable energy renewables report research small farmers smart agriculture soil solar solar energy spain sustainability Syria training tunisia waste water water water management water scarcity water security Wind wind energy women
More