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Domaine Ben Saida dates itself to 1995 and names Mohamed Bensaida, described on its history page as an ingénieur agronome, as its founder. The estate lies in the Sfax region, which that same page calls the first olive-growing region of Tunisia. A development table on the page holds the area constant at 150 hectares across three dated columns and records the planting that filled it: 2,000 olive trees in 1995, 4,000 in 2005 and 6,000 in 2015; no almond trees in 1995, 500 in 2005 and 1,500 in 2015; no water point in 1995, two wells in 2005 and three in 2015; five hectares of pastoral improvement and twenty head of livestock in the 2005 column, ten hectares and fifty head in 2015; and, in the 2015 column only, two hectares of medicinal plants and 200 fig trees.
The same table gives the method of cultivation as conventional in 1995, organic in 2005 and, in 2015, "Biodynamique + biologique + NOP", which the English version of the page sets out as biodynamic with Swiss organic and NOP. A separate product page on the site states that the estate has been certified organic since 1998 under the European organic regulation, a date the history table's decade columns do not carry. The export page lists the certifications as organic, biodynamic "demeter", bio suisse and NOP, without naming certifying bodies or numbers. The grove page states that the olives are harvested by hand, milled fresh in a certified organic oil mill and then gently cold extracted, and does not say the mill is the estate's own.
La Verte is described on the site as a Tunisian registered trademark for extra virgin olive oil coming exclusively from Domaine BenSaida; the export page also lists Cercina and Dorea as marks going to France and Germany, and La Verte to Switzerland. The estate's news page records, under 29 January 2018, that its biodynamic olive oil under the La Verte mark took the gold medal at the Festival Mon Olivier Sfax 2018; under 7 March 2018, a training visit by international Ecocert inspectors to the farm as a pilot organic holding; and under 5 October 2018, a day of biodynamic training given at the estate by Reto Ingold.
From the public record: domaine-bensaida.com
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