Month: March 2019

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…

Cybernetica will implement a secure data exchange platform for the Government of Tunisia (GOT) to strengthen local fiscal foundations and improve interoperability between national financial institutions. The aim of the cooperation is to help the Ministry of Finance of Tunisia to improve and simplify tax administration, as well as to modernise fiscal reporting and data exchange. The key activity for this is to provide the data exchange platform that allows for secure, real-time access to all connected databases across multiple government ministries, Cybernetica website reports. “We are intrigued to introduce…

An International Monetary Fund mission will visit Tunisia on March 27 to discuss the fifth review of a loan programme with the country, Minister of Economic Reform Taoufik Rajhi said on Tuesday. The visit comes two months after the government raised the wages of about 670,000 public employees, a decision the IMF had discouraged in order to cut Tunisia’s budget deficit. “The IMF mission will visit Tunisia from March 27 to April 9 for discussions on the fifth review of the loan program,” Rajhi told media. Tunisia struck a deal…

The future value proposition for the telecommunications market in Tunisia to 2025 is detailed according to Tunisia Telecommunications Market report. The latter provides imperatives for gaining market share in the highly competitive telecom industry. It provides unmatched depth and breadth into drivers, challenges, tariffs, competition, subscriber behaviour, infrastructure, regulatory support and others. The report presents detailed insights into Tunisia mobile communication, fixed telephone and fixed broadband markets. Subscriber count and penetration rates are forecast for each of the sub-sectors including cellular, fixed landline and broadband segments from 2005 to 2018…