Tunisia-UTAP requests the acceleration of grain transport

In a released statement, The Tunisian Union of Agriculture and Fishery demanded the need to accelerate the eviction of grains toward Central Warehouses and mills to preserve them from adverse weather conditions . The Union considered that the government has a responsibility toward what they regard as national wealth.

The union asked not to properly count the observed phenomenon of local grain bursting in the grand scale of calibration since its an inevitable happening prompted by likely climate change. Moreover, it’s out of farmers scope who has performed professionally distinguished efforts to improve productivity.

The UTAP evoked that the prices of sacrificial lamb this year took into account the high cost of production and the degraded purchasing power of the Tunisian citizen. Costs will range as follows:
12 dinars/kg for more than 45 kg
12,500 dinars/kg for less than 45 kg