Tunisia's date exports pass 150,000 tonnes and 1 billion dinars for the first time

Tunisia has exported 150,000 tonnes of dates worth more than 1 billion dinars this season, a first, said Kaïsar Ben Arfa, director of the date-sector professional grouping GID (Groupement interprofessionnel des dattes), on Express FM, after a record harvest of about 400,000 tonnes, four-fifths of it Deglet Nour. The dates went to roughly 94 countries, with European markets taking about 40 percent.

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