Department of farming lands development and conservation

•Role and remits

•Organization

•Reference publications

•Contact

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Role and remits

 The Department of farming lands development and conservation is in charge of :
(Official Gazette of the Republic of Tunisia dated February 15, 2001)
• Drawing up plans and orientations to preserve natural resources in terms of soil, plants, water and farming lands
• Suggesting, drawing up and promoting all measures to secure a better use of natural resources
• Assessing soil resources and their uses
• Carrying out soil and water analyses
• Carrying out researches on soil sciences
• Supervising the evolution of soils under various uses
• Securing the coordination between all parties concerned by the soil and water conservation
• Drawing up development studies for catchment basins
• Drawing up development studies on no erosive works and planning the implementation of such works
• Supervising and following up the execution of water and soil conservation projects
• Assessing the development of water and soil conservation
• Developing and promoting approaches which aim at a better preservation of resources and involving all parties in the preservation effort.
• Securing the use of water and soil conservation structures.

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Reference publications

• Hydrologic directories of hill lakes.
• Guide of water and soil conservation, 1995.
• 1/200 000 -Map of erosion in Tunisia from the north to the centre, 1980.
• Monthly reports on the progress of hill lakes
• Monthly reports on the filling of hill lakes.
• Half-yearly reports on the follow up of hill lakes’ use
• Planning studies on the water and soil conservation by Governorates
• Studies on integrated participative no-erosive structures by zones
• Social and technical studies on hill lakes

Contact

Institutions : Department of farming lands development and conservation
Acronym : DGACTA
Adress : 30 Rue Alain Savary, 1002 Tunis, Tunisie.
Tel : +216 71 287 192
responsible : M. Managing director of the l'ACTA

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