Revenues from date exports exceeded 500 million dinars during the first four months of the 2025/2026 campaign, recording a 4.4% increase compared to the same period of the previous season (2024/2025).
The ‘Deglet Nour’ variety alone accounted for 85.7% of the total export volume, according to a note published this Friday, February 27, 2026, by the National Observatory of Agriculture.
The Observatory explains this rise mainly due to the increase in exported quantities, up 5.1%, reaching 77,000 tonnes.
As for the average price of dates, it stood at 6.50 dinars per kilogram, while the price for the ‘Deglet Nour’ variety reached 7.19 dinars per kilogram, marking a slight decline of 0.7% compared with the same period of the 2024/2025 campaign.
Data from the National Observatory of Agriculture reveal that 41.7% of Tunisian exports are destined for the European Union, 24.9% to Asia and 23.8% to Africa.
Morocco remains the leading importer of Tunisian dates, with 16.8% of the exported quantities, followed by Italy (12%) and Germany (8.7%).
Regarding organic date exports, their volume reached 3,718.9 tonnes for a value close to 38.2 million dinars during the first four months of the campaign, representing a 27.3% increase in volume and 36.9% in value.
Germany remains the primary destination for Tunisian organic dates, absorbing 35% of the exported volume, ahead of the Netherlands (12%) and France (10%).
It should be noted that the share of organic dates in the total volume of date exports did not exceed 4.8%.
