page_title: Djerid
section_title: Economy
hierarchical_section_title: Djerid / Economy
caption_attribution_description: Tunisia (1960, locality unknown)
context_page_description: el-Djerid, al-Jarīd or more precisely the South Western Tunisia Region is a semi-desert natural region comprising three southern Tunisian Governorates, Gafsa, Kebili and Tozeur with adjacent parts of Algeria and Libya.
context_section_description: Jerid has about 1.6 million date palms and is one of Tunisia's most important date-producing regions, especially the most valuable variety, deglet nour. 
  Considering the wider version of Jerid, about 85% of Tunisia's total production of dates comes from the region, which in 2010-2011 produced almost 150 000 tonnes.  In the same year, only 0.2% of the deglet nour variety was produced outside the region.  Whereas the province of Kebili is not part of Jerid, the percentages fall to about 30% of the total and also 30% of deglet nour, which corresponds respectively to 52 125 and 36 050 tonnes.
  Despite extreme weather conditions - maximum temperatures are close to 50 °C and annual precipitations are very limited (between 80 and 120 mm) - the Jerid oases are very productive due to their resources in waters currently extracted from very deep underground aquifers through modern bore holes.
caption: The oasis of Tozeur in 1960
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