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Tunisia launches campaign to regularise land situation of 40,000 farmers

Friday, 05 May 2017 13:20

In Tunisia, 40,000 occupants and users will soon have their land situation regularised. This was announced by the nation’s Prime Minister, Youssef Chahed, on May 2, as was being launched a nation-wide regularization campaign in the Northern part of the country.

“The campaign aims to regularise the land situation regarding appropriation in order to introduce thousands of farmers into to economic system and restart investment and development in all regions to give a great boost to the economy and provide the State significant revenues while reducing challenges that farmers have to deal with. This will also help the farmers develop projects through bank loans and other advantages,” the PM said.

In the presence of Samir Betaieb, Mohamed Salah Arfaoui, Mabrouk Kourchid, respectively ministers of agriculture, equipement and state secretary in charge of State domains and land affairs, the Prime Minister said “beneficiaries of the regularization measure will pay symbolic prices taking into account their social conditions”.

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