The contribution of agricultural production in GDP over the last decade is at a rate of 7.19% from 2003 to 2012.
The annual rate of evolution of Production: 2.3% during the Eleventh Development Plan.
The livestock sector ranks first considering its contribution of about 35% in the value of agricultural production.

The Evolution of the Agricultural Sector Contribution to GDP at current prices.

Unit: million dinars

Production Evolution related to the most Important Agricultural Products

Annual rate per thousand tones

Marine Resources

• The Tunisian coasts extend throughout 1350 km.
• 41 fishing ports exist along these coasts, so a port every 40 km.
• The fleet consists of :

– 10678 boat inshore,
– 36 tuna fishing boat,
– 409 boat trawling ,
– 354 boat fishing sardines ,
– 223 other types.

• Fish production is about 109,000 tones per year, of which 24 700 tones from coastal fisheries, 22,600 tons came from trawling and 52,000 tones from the fishery on fire.
• The Aquaculture sector contributes nearly with 6% in fisheries production (2012).

Breeding Cattle

• It consists of livestock, in particular sheep, cattle, goats and poultry.
• 73% of heads of cows (female unit) located in the northern governorates, 23% in the central region and 4% in the south.
• 41% of heads of sheep are concentrated in the northern areas, 40% in the central zone and 19% in the south.
• The heads of goats by 32% in the North, 25% in rural areas and 43% in the south.
• For cattle, an evolution of the deep strain at the expense of local breed has been recorded.
• Stability in the amount of sheep and goats.

Development in the Livestock Sector (Unit: thousands of female units)

Agricultural land covers 10.5 million hectares (65% of total land area), including :

• 5 million hectares favorable to Agriculture.
• 5 million hectares of forests and pastures.

Agricultural lands and their way of use

Irrigated Areas:

• The area of arable land in 2012 reached about 4991.470 Million hectares, including 468,550 hectares of irrigated lands, shared among 247.510 miles hectares irrigated in public areas, and 221.040 miles hectares irrigated in private areas.
• Approximately 360,000 hectares of irrigated areas are outfitted with economical irrigation water, including 150,000 hectares with drip techniques irrigation.
• 55% of the irrigated areas are irrigated by water with a salinity exceeding 2 g / l.

Restructuring of Agricultural Lands

• The total number of farms are 516,000 according to the survey of 2005, compared with 471 thousand operated in 1995, an increase of 9.5%.
• The average farm is 10.4 hectares against 11.2 for 1995.
• 73% of farms cover less than 10 hectares.
• 89% of farms cover less than 20 hectares.
• Evolution of the number and farms Area (1995-2005).

• The agricultural sector contributes in employment of about 16.3% of total active workers , knowing that this percentage in 1994 was around 22%.

The Evolution of the Proportion of Active Workers in the Agricultural Sector

• The peasant labor is essentially family labor.
• The family labor counts, according to the results of the investigation carried out under the monitoring of the 2011-2012 agricultural season, approximately 1,190,000 people (58.7% of them are men and 41.3% women), with small proportion of full-time, equivalent to 488 000 permanent jobs.

Restructuring of Commercial Exchanges Food

The evolution of the trade balance