The Beja Governorate has recorded, since the start of the harvest season at the beginning of June this year, 34 fires in crops of cereals and forages, including 24 fires affecting cereal surfaces and 10 fires in forage materials, notably hay bales or coarse forages, according to a Civil Protection source cited by the Tunis Afrique Presse agency.
The same source indicated that the cereal surfaces affected by the fires were not significant and did not entail heavy losses, noting that the Civil Protection units in Beja also intervened to extinguish 6 forest fires, including the fire on Jebel El Marra in Goubellat, the Zeldou forest fire in Testour, as well as a fire on Jebel Siyar, at the border between the Beja and Jendouba governorates.
It should be recalled that the harvest season for barley and triticale began in Beja on June 3 this year, while cereal harvesting began on June 7 in six delegations in the southern part of the governorate, namely Goubellat, Mejez El Bab, Testour, the southern part of Teboursouk, certain areas of Beja-South, and localities of Tibar.
The harvest season then began, on June 13, in the delegations of Beja-North, Amdoun and Nefza, as well as in several areas of Teboursouk, Beja-South and Tibar.
