UTAP - Tunisian Union of Agriculture and Fisheries

ABOUT US
The Tunisian Union of Agriculture and Fishing is a national trade union and development organization,  interested in the agricultural and fishing fields throughout the territory of the Tunisian Republic.
OUR HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

• The Tunisian Union of Agriculture and Fisheries is a founding member of the Maghrebian Farmers Union, a professional coalition which brings together agricultural organizations from the five Maghreb countries and their permanent headquarters in Tunisia.
• The Union is also a founding member of the General Union of Arab Farmers and Agricultural Cooperatives.
• The Union currently chairs the African Agriculture Organization.
• The Union is also a member of the Board of Directors of the World Farmers Organization (OMA)
• The Union also maintains relations of cooperation, friendship and fraternity with a number of its counterparts from agricultural organizations in allies countries (Morocco, Algeria, Libya, Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq , Kuwait, Yemen, France, Italy, Canada …). )
• The Union also has contacts with some international and regional organizations linked to the agricultural field, such as the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the International Fund for Agricultural Development, and has also cooperative relations with the representative of the European Union in Tunisia.

UTAP is considered as an active social party that participates to the country’s development process. It is part of many national committees and councils related to the agriculture and marine fisheries field. It also plays the best trade union role thanks to a balanced structure which combines the role of supervision and mobilization of its basic, local and regional structures, as well as the role of specialized development embodied in the sectoral and specialized universities in which it works for professional and technical progress through more than 120 regional universities and 20 national sectoral and specialized universities.

Thanks to its geographical extension and its sectoral diversity, the union was able to spread throughout the territory with more than 220 local federations, 24 regional federations and more than 850 unions.