Agri-food SIAMAP exhibition kicks off in Tunis

A record number of exhibitors (500) and visitors (200,000) are expected at the 13th edition of the SIAMAP 2017 International Show of Agriculture, Agricultural Machinery & Fishing from October 31 to November 5 in the Tunis’s Kram exhibition space. The announcement was made by the head of the Tunisian Agriculture and Fisheries Union (UTAP), Abdelmajid Zar, who noted that this year the exhibition will present a chock-full program centering on sharing research and experiment results. Country guest of honor will be Turkey. SIAMAP serves as a showcase for Tunisian agriculture,…

Do You Know That Africa is Building the 8th Wonder of The World?

Nine miles wide and 4,750 miles long, Algeria, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Chad, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Somalia, Sudan, The Gambia, and Tunisia have banded together on an unprecedented endeavor to stave off impending catastrophe. The Great Green Wall is an African-led project with an epic ambition: to grow an 8,000km natural wonder of the world across the entire width of Africa. Its goal is to provide food, jobs and a future for the millions of people who live in a region…

Tunisia Foreign Minister meets PM Modi

Foreign Minister Khemaies Jhinaoui, who is on a four-day visit to India, met Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday afternoon. The minister is here to co-chair the 12th India-Tunisia Joint Commission Meeting (JCM) along with Sushma Swaraj, External Affairs Minister of India. The JCM will enable both the countries with a comprehensive review of bilateral cooperation in political, economic and cultural areas and people-to-people exchanges, a press release by Ministry of External Affairs said. Both countries will also be signing agreements and Memorandum of understanding (MoU)s. Besides official meetings, Jhinaoui, will address the business…

European Parliament President Antonio Tajani on official visit to Tunisia on 30 and 31 October 2017

European Parliament President, Antonio Tajani, will pay an official visit to Tunisia from 30 to 31 October 2017. Ahead of the trip, the President declared: “Tunisia is a young democracy, a friend and a key partner of the European Union. We face common challenges requiring a joint response: stability in the Mediterranean and in Africa, […] Africain.info

Tunisia to get €38.6 mln loan from AfDB to boost agricultural value chains

– Tunisia will soon get from the African Development Bank (AfDB) two loans worth a total of €38.6 million to finance its project for the valorisation of irrigated lands and to develop agricultural value chains. This was revealed by AfDB itself which highlighted that the facilities will be provided via its co-financing fund, Africa Growing Together Fund (AGTF). Aiming mainly to improve the living standards and earnings of rural populations which are among the least favored, the project will be carried out between March 2018 and December 2022. It will target…