Africa Report 05/96

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Table 1: Cereal Imports and Food Aid Requirements in 1996/97 for Sub-Saharan Africa Countries which have entered their 1996/97 marketing year ( in thousand tons )

1996 Cereal production 1/
Position for 1996/97
- -
Food aid requirements
Cereal import position
- - - -
Food aid
Sub-Region/Country
Marketing year
Total
As %of Average of previous 5 years
Cereal
import
require-
ments 2/
Antici-
pated commercial imports
Total
of which exceptional
Commer-
cial
imports already made or contracted
Pledges
of which
received
so far 3/
Uncov.
food aid
require-
ments
Southern Africa 8 307 134 1 596 955 641 150 - 147 37 519
Angola April/March 432 126 416 200 216 50 - 59 22 157
Botswana April/March 68 179 223 223 - - - - -
Lesotho April/March 172 122 213 178 35 - - - - 35
Madagascar April/March 1 724 95 217 156 61 - - 13 - 48
Malawi April/March 1 816 126 47 47 - - - 18 -
Mozambique April/March 1 045 155 410 81 329 100 - 50 15 279
Zimbabwe April/March 3 050 173 70 70 - - - 7 -

1/ Including rice in milled equivalent.
2/ Excluding re-exports.
3/ Deliveries refer to month of April 1996.
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