Tuesday 05 June 2012
Area planted with cereal crops this year is estimated at about 10 per cent lower than the area planted last year, but the average yield is projected to be higher due to sufficient rainfall and favorable weather conditions during the cereal growing season.
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Friday 06 May 2011
Tunisia expects a wheat harvest of almost 2 million tonnes this year due to more rain than in 2010, reducing the need for imports, Agriculture Minister Mokhtar Jallali said on Wednesday.
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Monday 07 February 2011
Rising food costs and unemployment were a major factor leading to the social unrest and riots in Tunisia, according to Cary Sifferath, US Grains Council regional director based in Tunisia.
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Monday 18 October 2010
A 12,000-ton shipment of US distiller’s dried grains with solubles (DDGS) arrived in Tunisia on 19 September, just a couple of days ahead of a one-day DDGS conference held in Sfax, Tunisia, that was organized in part by the US Grains Council.
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Friday 15 October 2010
A 12,000-ton shipment of US distiller’s dried grains with solubles (DDGS) arrived in Tunisia on 19 September, just a couple of days ahead of a one-day DDGS conference held in Sfax, Tunisia, that was organized in part by the US Grains Council.
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Monday 31 May 2010
Mr. Abdessalem Mansour, Minister of Agriculture and Water Resources, received on Thursday in Tunis, a delegation of investors from the United Arab Emirates and Turkey, currently on a work visit in Tunisia to look at opportunities of partnership in the sector of farming and means to promote cooperation with their Tunisian counterparts.
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Monday 22 March 2010
As part of the implementation of the 2009-2014 Presidential Program which focused in its 20th item on "agricultural sector adjusting to climate changes and meeting current challenges", Tunisia has set up a number of strategies so as to develop the sector.
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Sunday 28 February 2010
In recent years, snail farming has become one means of securing a decent income, as well as contributing to the country’s economic growth; indeed snail farming for human consumption, is currently witnessing, a remarkable development, particularly in the governorate of Jendouba since the launch of the first project in 2003
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Friday 26 February 2010
In the 2009-2014 presidential program, organic farming received particular interest which aimed at doubling the areas dedicated to biological farming, to reach 500,000 hectares in 2014
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Wednesday 03 February 2010
As part of following up the 2009-2014 presidential programme to boost organic farming, a cabinet meeting, held on Wednesday under President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali's chairmanship, reviewed development of this sector and looked at the strategy the Head of State had ordered to promote it and achieve the objectives set for the next five-year term, especially that of doubling by 2014 the areas for growing organic crops
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Tuesday 22 December 2009
The World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) received an immediate notification from Tunisian veterinary authorties on 17 December
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Sunday 05 July 2009
The first two cases of H1N1 influenza in Tunisia were discovered after the local health authorities decided to test 22 students who had spent some time in Washington with the Bahraini students who tested positive, a Tunisian health official has said.
"When we heard about the cases of the Bahraini students who tested positive in Manama, we moved to check the Tunisian students who were with them in the US on an
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