Tunisia to increase grain output
Tunisia plans to
raise its annual grain production to 2.7 million tonnes by 2014 from an
average of about 1.8 million tonnes now, Agriculture Minister
Abdessalem Mansour said.
The nation imports about 2.5 million tonnes of grain each year to make up for a shortfall in domestic production.
“Tunisia aims to increase the rate of grain production gradually to
27 million quintals (2.7 million tonnes) by 2014,” the TAP official
news agency quoted the minister as saying on Sunday. Mr. Mansour also
stated that the plan was to increase production by reducing wastage of
grain during transportation. He did not give a forecast for this year’s
grain harvest.
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