| 
 
 
 
 
 
 | Institut de l’Olivier,Sfax, Tunisia
                   
                    | 
                        
                        
                          
                            Team Leader Boubaker Karray 
                          
                            The Institut de lOlivier (I.O.) is a public administrative 
                              body. It comes under the authority of the Ministry 
                              of Agriculture and is attached to the Agricultural 
                              Research & Higher Education Agency (known by 
                              its French acronym I.R.E.S.A). This Institut is 
                              responsible for undertaking research, studies, experiments, 
                              information-oriented activities and action to develop 
                              both the olive sector and the one of the fruit arboriculture 
                              in the semi-arid zone in the agronomic, processing 
                              and economic fields.
  Dr Boubaker Karray, is the coordinator 
                              of the I.O. research activity "Improvement 
                              of the productivity and competitivity in the olive 
                            oil sector". |  |