The food trade balance recorded a surplus of 174.4 MD in January 2025, compared with a surplus of 469.2 MD in the same month of the previous year, resulting in a coverage rate of 125.0% at the end of January 2025, compared with 192.8% at the end of January 2024, according to ONAGRI data.
In terms of value, food exports fell by 10.6%, while imports rose by 37.9%, as a result of lower exports of olive oil (-14.7%), dates (-2.7%) and fish products (-54.4%), and higher imports of sugar (+65.1%) and cereals (+32.2%).
The average export price of olive oil fell to 12.33 DT/kg, down 54.4% on the previous year.
Import prices for cereal products fell by 1% to 17%, with the exception of corn, whose price rose by 10.3%.
Export prices fell by 54.4% for olive oil and 26.7% for fishery products, while they rose by 5.5% for dates and 100.6% for citrus fruits compared with the same period last year.
Import prices for cereals fell by 16.8% for durum wheat, 0.7% for soft wheat and 2.1% for barley, while corn prices rose by 10.3%. Sugar prices also fell by 52%, while vegetable oil prices rose by 30.4% and milk and milk derivatives by 6.8%.
TunisianMonitorOnline (NejiMed)
