The region of Gabès knows a number of geothermal wells and this is one of them. Some are used to generate electricity, but most of them are used for irrigation purposes. The hot mineral-rich water coming out of the ground with a temperature of about 60ºC is being cooled in such spiral installations before it is pumped into the greenhouses and onto the fields in the area.
These weaving ladies were able to improve and commercialize their weaving activites by attending specialized courses, held with the financial support from the “Integrated Agricultural Development Project of Gabès”, co-financed by the AfDB. The full story can be read in the AfDB Project Brief.
This couple is going to get married in the next few days. She was the daughter of the house and had just undergone the traditional henna beautification of her hand and feet.
This road from the nearest town El Hama to this oasis El Hdaouna was tarred as part of the “Integrated Agricultural Development Project of Gabès”, co-financed by the AfDB. This enables the local population to transport their goods (vegetables and fruit) to the markets more quickly and for the children to be able to get to school easily. It also means to the locals that the isolation in winter has ended when the road was sometimes impossible to use due to terrential rainfall. The full story can be read in the AfDB Project Brief.
The farmer, Imèd Boureguaa, here benefited mainly from a microcredit and a subsidy to start up his business in 2008. The newly tarred road which enabled him to transport his products (melons and tomatoes) quicker and more easily to the market in El Hama together with the geothermal water supply were the incentives to let him built his pepper and tomato greenhouses at this spot. The microcredit and the tarring of the road were financed by the “Integrated Agricultural Development Project of Gabès”, co-financed by the AfDB. The full story can be read in the <a href=”http://www.afdb.org/fileadmin/uploads/afdb/Documents/Publications/Tunisia%20Newsletter%20Revised.pdf”>AfDB Project Brief</a>.
The farmer here benefited from the newly tarred road which enabled him to transport his products (melons and tomatoes) quicker and more easily to the market in El Hama. The tarring of the road was financed by the “Integrated Agricultural Development Project of Gabès”, co-financed by the AfDB.
The farmer families here benefited from the tarred road which reaches to the oasis nearby. The tarring of the road was financed by the “Integrated Agricultural Development Project of Gabès”, co-financed by the AfDB. For the future the farmers would like to see the paved road extended to their village and a water well to be dug. At the moment they have to transport their water in jerry cans from the oasis several kilometres away.
The road was washed away by rain weeks earlier. This shows the need for more preventive erosion measures in this area.
Here the farmer was able to purchase with the financial support from the “Integrated Agricultural Development Project of Gabès” co-financed by the AfDB, pasture land for feeding bovine / ovine animals.
