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Tunisia is located on the North coast of Africa and is limited to the North and the East by the Mediterranean coast, a total of 1300 Km, and to the South-East by Lybia and at the West by Algeria. The total land area is approximately 16.4 million hectares which is divided as follow:
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7 Million hectares of land not suitable for agricultural production
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5,4 Million hectares of agricultural land
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4 Millions hectares of forest and pasture land.
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Missaoui, H. (1996). Soil and Water Conservation in Tunisia. In: Pereira, L.S., Feddes, R.A., Gilley, J.R., Lesaffre, B. (eds) Sustainability of Irrigated Agriculture. NATO ASI Series, vol 312. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8700-6_9
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