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Organic agri-food sector growing in Tunisia

The agri-food sector is important in Tunisia. It represents 3% of national GDP, counts over 4,800 companies and employs over 73,000 people. Tunisia is Africa's second largest exporter of agriculturally farmed produce and the 24th in the world in terms of value.

They aim to bring investments up to 585 million dinars ($357 million USD) by 2016, compared to 385 million dinars ($235 million USD) in 2012. They aim to increase export to 3.4 billion dinars ($2 billion USD) compared to just over 2 billion dinars ($1.2 billion USD) in 2012.

Organically farmed land is currently estimated at 400,000 ha and is expected to increase to 500,000 ha by 2016. Volume of organic production reached 265,000 tons/year. About 80% of organic Tunisian produce is exported.

On the organic market in Tunisia, dates are the most represented product. 6,000 tons were harvested in 2011, of which two thirds were exported (68% to Germany and 11% to the USA).