Editing Djerid (section)

==Economy==
[[File:Tunis1960-040 hg.jpg|thumb|The oasis of Tozeur in 1960]]

Jerid has about 1.6 million date palms and is one of Tunisia's most important date-producing regions, especially the most valuable variety, ''[[Deglet Nour|deglet nour]]''. 
Considering the wider version of Jerid, about 85% of Tunisia's total production of dates comes from the region, which in 2010-2011 produced almost 150,000 tonnes.  In the same year, only 0.2% of the deglet nour variety was produced outside the region.  Whereas the province of Kebili is not part of Jerid, the percentages fall to about 30% of the total and also 30% of deglet nour, which corresponds respectively to 52,125 and 36,050 tonnes.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.gifruits.com |title = GIFruits – Groupement Interprofessionnel des Fruits – Tunisie – Contact}}</ref>
Despite extreme weather conditions - maximum temperatures are close to 50&nbsp;°C and [[annual precipitation]]s are very limited (between 80 and 120&nbsp;mm) - the Jerid oases are very productive due to their resources in waters currently extracted from very deep underground [[aquifer]]s through modern bore holes.