Archive for July, 2019

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  Progress of the Tomato Processing Campaign to July 23rd

  The processing of tomatoes for the 2019 campaign continues across 24 factories distributed as follows

   
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  Progress of the 2019 Tomato Processing Campaign

  22 tomato double concentrate production companies out of the 26 units in operation started tomato processing for the 2019 season until July 9. Processing reached 158 thousand T of fresh tomatoes, compared to 136 thousand T at the same date last year, that is 16% more. 41% of the quantities were processed in 13 companies in Cap-Bon, while companies in the North-West and Central regions (Béjà, Kairouan, Sidi-Bouzid and Le Kef) processed 32%.

   
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  Tomato Campaign – Follow-up visit

  As part of the monitoring of the 2019 tomato campaign, a visit was made on Thursday July 4, 2019 by the General manager and executives of GICA in the Kairouan region to the production fields as well as the factories of transformation. Both mechanical and manual harvesting in this region has started two weeks ago.

   
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