Day: March 23, 2019

Water resources issues in the governorate of Sidi Bouzid will soon be solved, said Friday Secretary of State for Water Resources and Fisheries Abdallah Rabhi. Chairing the Regional Water Council, Rabhi said in a statement to media that it was decided to immediately start drilling the wells in Jelma, adding that the Prime Minister ordered to provide 3.6 million dinars (MD) for the benefit of regions facing thirst in Jelma. The official announced the programming of a large project costing 60 MD, which will concern Mazouna, Menzel Bouzaiene and Meknassi.…

Secretary-General of the World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) Zurab Pololikashvili announced on Friday that his organisation will work, in cooperation with the Ministry of Tourism and Handicrafts, to establish, in Tunisia, an academy for training in tourism, over the next three months. The official told media on the fringes of his participation in the opening of the 36th edition of the Handicrafts Creation Exhibition (from March 22 to 31, 2019 in Tunis), that the tourism training academy will play a key role in enhancing the quality of tourist services and upgrading…

Tunisia will be among the pioneers in the global market of organic farming, Minister of Agriculture, Water Resources and Fisheries, Samir Taieb said Friday. Tunisia now ranks 23rd worldwide and is in the lead at the African and global levels in terms of areas dedicated to the organic olive growing, he said in a statement to media on the fringes of the meeting of the National Commission on Organic Farming underlining that the organic farming areas increased from nearly 216 thousand hectares in 2012 to 336,000 hectares in 2018. The…