Tunisia produces about 50% of its durum wheat needs and 10% of soft wheat, which requires it to resort to importing this material. For the current season, production would not exceed 2.5 million quintals

Anis Kharbach, the member of the Contral Council of the Tunisian Union of Agriculture and Fisheries (UTAP), indicated during an interview that “the national cereal production for the current season would not exceed 2.5 million quintals, of which 1.7 million quintals will be collected At best, this is down considerably from last year's harvest of 11 million quintals (the quantity collected was limited to 7.4 quintals)

According to him, this harvest is very small, and would not even cover the need for seeds, expressing his hope that the problem of the decline in the cereal harvest will not continue over the next two years, especially since the country's needs are estimated, today, at around 30 million quintals of soft wheat hard, as well as D&# 39; barley.