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Sustainability of Irrigated Agriculture pp 121–135Cite as

Soil and Water Conservation in Tunisia

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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:

  • 7 Million hectares of land not suitable for agricultural production

  • 5,4 Million hectares of agricultural land

  • 4 Millions hectares of forest and pasture land.

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  1. Ministry of Agriculture, 30, Rue Alain Savary, Tunis, Tunisia

    H. Missaoui (Director of Soil and Water Conservation)

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  1. H. Missaoui
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  1. Department of Agricultural Engineering, Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

    L. S. Pereira

  2. Agricultural Engineering Department, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA

    R. A. Feddes

  3. Department of Water Resources, Wageningen Agricultural University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

    J. R. Gilley

  4. CEMAGREF, Antony, France

    B. Lesaffre

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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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