A ministerial working session devoted to the issue of supplying the local market with chemical fertilisers during the 2023-2024 agricultural season was held on Friday at the Government Palace in La Kasbah, under the chairmanship of Prime Minister Najla Bouden.
The members of the government taking part in this meeting were briefed on the progress of preparations for the next agricultural season, particularly in terms of the supply of chemical fertilisers for the local market, based on the sales of the Tunisian Chemical Group during the 2022-2023 season and the forecast fertiliser requirements for this season set by the Ministry of Agriculture, Water Resources and Fisheries.
A series of recommendations were made at the end of the meeting. In particular, these included speeding up the building up of fertiliser stocks to cover the needs of the 2023-2024 field crop season, ordering the adoption of the “Fertiliser” computer system to monitor the distribution of fertilisers on the Tunisian market, from producer to end consumer, and keeping the prices of basic chemical fertilisers unchanged in order to deal with the difficulties encountered by farmers as a result of successive periods of drought.
It was also decided to put in place a well-defined action plan based on the sector’s priorities, in particular, the digitisation of the various agricultural sectors to ensure modern, competitive and sustainable agriculture.
Source: Agence Tunis Afrique Presse