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Tunisia

Tunisia Grain Market Analysis

The Grains Market in Tunisia Market that the area planted for wheat and 762,377 ton of coarse grains, and
size is estimated at USD 1.20 billion barley during 2017-2018 to be 724,000 700,000 ton of barley was domestically
in 2024, and is expected to reach ha and 534,000 ha, respectively, with produced in the region, which was a
USD 1.43 billion by 2029, growing at increased production of 1.2 million 35.83%, 42.97%, and 46.44% increase,
a CAGR of 3.5% during the forecast metric ton and 500,000 metric ton, respectively, in production when
period (2024-2029). respectively. compared to 2017.
Tunisia has the highest per capita Rising Barley Imports for Beer
consumption of wheat in the North Tunisia Grain Market Production
African region, which is close to 258 Trends France, Ukraine, the United Kingdom,
kg per year. Further demand for wheat Russia, Romania, Argentina, Finland,
is created by visitors every year from This section covers the major market and Estonia are some of the major
Algeria and Libya (over two million) trends shaping the Tunisia Grain regions from where Tunisia imports
who have high requirements of wheat- Market according to our research barley. Beer continues to dominate
based food products. The total Tunisian experts: the volume sales of alcoholic drinks
wheat consumption is around 3 million Increased Domestic Production in Tunisia, benefiting from a very high
metric ton, every year. A strategy was Tunisia’s agricultural sector is highly number of consumers. According to
formulated to reach 2.7 million metric labor-intensive and uses very low the World Health Organization (WHO),
ton of cereal production over the next levels of fertilizers and pesticides. Most 72% of Tunisians who consume
three years, in Tunisia. of the farms are not highly mechanized, alcoholic drinks prefer beer, making
Cereals are important crops in and plowing a field takes five times the locally produced global beers
Tunisia and occupy about 1.2-1.5 longer than in the United States. Most dominate the competitive landscape.
million ha, of which about 13% is of the land is split into very small The local manufacture of international
planted with bread wheat, 45% with farms, making production much less beer brands is led by SONOBRA,
durum wheat, and 42% in barley. efficient, with 80% of the farms being which ranked second in terms of
Total cereal production in 2016-2017 smaller than 20 hectares, and only volume, in 2018. Hence, there is always
reached about 1.5 million metric ton, 3% is larger than 50 hectares. Wheat, a significant demand for barley, the
including 1.1 million metric ton of barley, and sorghum are the majorly main ingredient in the production of
wheat and 400,000 metric ton of barley. produced grains in the Tunisian region. beer, which implies a growth factor for
The Ministry of Agriculture reported In 2018, 1500,000 metric ton of wheat, barley import in the region.
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