| Resumo: | [EN] Modern rabbit production in Tunisia started in 1980's. The following article deals with technical and economical performances in rabbit sector studied through a survey including 62 production units of the Tunis and Bizerte areas. Data analysis shows that average number of rabbit does per rabbitry was 112. The numerical productivity was poor : 28.7 rabbits sold/mother-cage/year. This low productivity can be considered as a consequence of bad management decisions mainly in term of repnduction control, breeding animal renewal and general management of the rabbitry. Moreover, low performances can be attributed to poor training of technicians and to low quality of available animals, nutrition or housing conditions... These performances are lower than the profitability levels which was estimated at 36 rabbits/mother-cage/year. Furthermore, Tunisian is not known to be a major rabbit meat consumer, his annual consumption is poor : 350 g/person/year. To increase the productivity level of the sector it is necessary : 1 I to train technicians in order to improve this management performers, 2/ to educate consumer in order to be aware of this quality of the rabbit meat and 3/ to develop new strategy which takes account for local conditions.
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