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Grain

Wheat

📍 Tunisia

Click a numbered marker on the plant to explore each life-cycle stage — or read the key dates on the right.

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Sow Harvest
Sow
Oct – Nov
Harvest
Jun – Jul
Growing period
240 days
Seeding rate
140 - 150 kg/ha
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Harvest — this part of the plant

Roots & seed establish first. Sow in at .

Leaves & stem drive the vegetative stage over .

Flowering falls mid-cycle between sowing () and harvest (). Keep stress low here.

Fruit/grain matures — harvest around .

Local note

Based on similar agro-ecological conditions in another country — confirm with local extension.
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Where Wheat grows in Tunisia

hill mountain

Kroumirie - Mogods

It is a mountain range that spans the north. C 'is a continuation of the Tell Atlas coastal. The greater part of the area consists of acid clays and sandy rocks. This is the wetland with annual rainfall of 800 to 1200 mm per year. In this area, the slopes are steep and irregular (exceeding 8%) and poor soil.

hill mountain

Sub-humid

This area consists of hills and valleys with in limited groundwater resources, mosaic floors that range from slick rise to vertisols in winter with shallow soils. The majority is represented by good soils, deep on soft limestone. pH sup. 7 and clay contents ranging from 25 to 70%. The average annual rainfall between 600 and 800 mm

dry arid

upper semi-arid

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