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 Messe

Contact: 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

18,2

55

18,2

55

33,5

00

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

5,5

66

12,1

16

16,4

30 40,0

00

80,0

00

71,3

00

70,0

00

165,7

00

1,1

10

1,0

15

3,0

18

2,6

15

5,6

00

9,0

00

13,0

00

12,0

95

Production including olive oil

Exports

Metr

ic t

ons

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 land

Wild 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

Cactus

Dates

Fruit, no de-tails

Olives

0 50,000 100,000 150,000

713.0

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