- Titre : Caractérisation pomologique et physicochimique d’oliviers de la collection de Boughrara (sfax, Tunisie)
- DOI: 10.71751/JAAOGv1i2y2022-44-58
- Auteur : Hayet FOURATI; Mohamed AYADI; Fatma BACCARI; Gouta BEN AHMED; Fathi BEN AMAR
- Abstract : In Tunisia, the olive oil sector occupies an important place in the national economy. However, our exports of this product are mainly in bulk and our challenge is to work on the quality of olive oil and its packaging to improve our foreign exchange income. In addition, the evolution of the global economic context towards the liberalization of trade will lead to an increasingly competitive market and will require an improvement in the quantity (a good yield) and the Tunisian olive oil quality with a view to greater compliance with standards.
Tunisia's olive varietal heritage is very rich in varieties although the Tunisian olive grove is dominated by Chemlali Sfax and Chétoui varieties for olive oil and Meski for table olive. In addition, this heritage is very rich in local varieties and ecotypes which are kept in the collection of the olive tree of Boughrara (Sfax). The oil of part of this heritage has been characterized in situ (site of origin or in-situ) and most of these varieties are only cultivated in their sites of origin and whose oil quality is not known.
The present work falls within this framework and consists in studying the pomological characteristics of olives and the physicochemical characteristics of the oils of local varieties and ecotypes of olive trees in the Boughrara collection (ex-situ) in order to select the varieties that meet the quality criteria. - Pagination : 44-58
