Tunisia : Key facts
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Research Institute of Organic AgricultureForschungsinstitut für biologischen Landbau
Data on Organic Agriculture in TunisiaResearch Institute of Organic Agriculture FiBL, CH-Frick, May 1, 2012
Compiled in the framework of the annual survey on organic agriculture world-wide, carried out by FIBL, in cooperation with IFOAM.Funded by the International Trade Centre ITC, the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) and Nürnberg MesseContact: Helga Willer, Research Institute of Organic Agriculture, FiBL, Frick, Switzerland, [email protected]
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Tunisia: Key facts
› Organic agricultural land: 175’000 hectares› Share of total agricultural land: 1.8 percent (rank 3 in
Africa, rank 45 worldwide)› Growth 2009-2010: + 5 %› Total production in metric tons: 165’888› Total exports in metric tons: 12’225› Total export value 2009: 55 million Dinar› Key export products: Olive oil and dates› Most data are available at
http://www.ctab.nat.tn/ang/defaultan.php?p=situation_ang
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Tunisia: Development of organic agricultural land 1999-2010
1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 20100
20,000
40,000
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Source: Data 1999-2003: Various sources; 2004-2010: CTAB/Ministry of Agriculture
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Tunisia: Development of organic production and export 2002-2010
2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 20090
20,000
40,000
60,000
80,000
100,000
120,000
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Production including olive oilExports
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Source: General Direction of Organic Agriculture
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Tunisia: Development of exports by product 2007-2009
2007 2008 2009 20100
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12000
14000
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6,061
9,656
8,200
2,3003,025 3,055
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9,000
13,00012,095
14,096
Olive oilDatesOthersTotal exportsSpalte1Spalte2Spalte3Spalte4
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Tunisia: Development of export value 2007-2010
2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 20100
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Exports in Mio Tunisian Dinar
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Tunisia: Agricultural land and wild collection areas
› Agricultural land: 0.18 million hectares in 2010
› Wild collection: 0.23 million hectares in 2010 (for the wild collection area no details on the products collected are available).
43%57%
Distribution of agricultural land and wild collection
areas 2010
Agricultural landWild collection areas
Source: General Direction of Organic Agriculture 2011
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Tunisia: Use of organic agricultural land 2010 (total: 0.175 million hectares)
1'705.2; 1%
127'117.6; 50%
29'662.5; 11%16580.91; 6%
80'982.57; 32%
Distribution of agricultural land use types 2010
(area in ha and share of total organic land)
Arable land Permanent cropsPermanent grassland OtherAgricultural land, no details
Vegetables
Medicinal/ aromatic
plants
Cereals
221
852
1,483
The main arable crops 2010
Hectares
CactusDates
Fruit, no de-tails
Olives
0 50,000 100,000 150,000713.0
1,024.5
5,857.2
119,384.0
The main permanent crops 2010
Source: General Direction of Organic Agriculture 2011
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Further information
› Further reading› Kilcher, Lukas and Samia
Maamer Belkhira: Tunisa: Country Report. In: Willer/Kilcher (Eds.): The World of Organic Agriculture 2011. FiBL & IFOAM, Frick and Bonn
› Contact for this presentation› Helga Willer, Research Institute
of Organic Agriculture FiBL, Frick, Switzerland, [email protected], www.fibl.org
› Links› www.ctab.nat.tn: Website of
the Centre Technique de l’agriculture biologique
› www.organic-world.net: FiBL web portal with information on organic agriculture worldwide