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, helga.willer@fibl.org

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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

60,000

80,000

100,000

120,000

140,000

160,000

180,000

200,000

8,00

0

18,0

35

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55

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155,

323

143,

099

154,

793

154,

793

174,

725

167,

302

175,

066

Hec

tare

s

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

140,000

160,000

180,000

5,56

6

12,1

16

16,4

30 40,0

00

80,0

00

71,3

00

70,0

00

165,

700

1,11

0

1,01

5

3,01

8

2,61

5

5,60

0

9,00

0

13,0

00

12,0

95

Production including olive oilExports

Met

ric to

ns

Source: General Direction of Organic Agriculture

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Tunisia: Development of exports by product 2007-2009

2007 2008 2009 20100

2000

4000

6000

8000

10000

12000

14000

16000

6,061

9,656

8,200

2,3003,025 3,055

600 650 1,000

9,000

13,00012,095

14,096

Olive oilDatesOthersTotal exportsSpalte1Spalte2Spalte3Spalte4

5Source: General Direction of Organic Agriculture

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Tunisia: Development of export value 2007-2010

2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 20100

10

20

30

40

50

60

7012 11

44

57

64

55

66

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, helga.willer@fibl.org, 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