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AFFECTED COUNTRIES1/


UNFAVOURABLE PROSPECTS FOR CURRENT CROPS 2/

Country

Harvest date

Main contributory factors

Bangladesh Nov./Jan. Floods
Cambodia December Drought
China Nov./Dec. Floods
Congo, Dem.Rep.of* Sept./Oct. Civil strife
Cuba Sept./Dec. Reduced plantings, drought, shortages of inputs
Ecuador May/Sept. Adverse weather, reduced plantings
Guinea Bissau Oct./Nov. Civil strife
Guyana Sept./Oct. Drought, reduced plantings
Kazakhstan July/Oct. Drought
Laos* Nov./Dec. Drought
Nepal Nov./Dec. Floods, landslides
Philippines Aug./Sept. Drought
Russian Federation July/Oct. Drought
Sierra Leone* Sept./Dec. Civil strife
Suriname Sept./Oct. Drought
Ukraine July/Oct. Drought
Viet Nam October Drought

 


SHORTFALLS IN FOOD SUPPLIES IN CURRENT MARKETING YEAR
REQUIRING EXCEPTIONAL AND/OR
EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE
(Total: 30 countries)

AFRICA (13 countries):

Angola*, Burundi*, Democratic Republic of Congo*, Eritrea*, Ethiopia*, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia*, Rwanda*, Sierra Leone*, Somalia*, Sudan*, Uganda, Zambia

ASIA (7 countries):

Afghanistan*, Bangladesh, Indonesia*, Iraq*, Korea, D.P.R.*, Laos*, Mongolia*

CENTRAL AMERICA (2 countries):

Cuba, Haiti*

SOUTH AMERICA (1 country):

Guyana

COMMONWEALTH OF INDEPENDENT STATES (4 countries):

Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Tajikistan*

EUROPE (2 countries):

Bosnia-Herzegovina, Yugoslavia, Fed. Rep. of

OCEANIA (1 country):

Papua New Guinea


DISTRIBUTION OF LOCAL AND/OR EXPORTABLE SURPLUSES
REQUIRING EXTERNAL ASSISTANCE:

- Sudan

 


1/ New countries included in this report compared to the last report, are underlined on this page; both here and in the text, countries with unfavourable prospects for current crop and/or uncovered shortfalls are marked in bold and those affected or threatened by successive bad crops or food shortages are marked with an asterisk (*). Definitions can be found on the Contents page.
2/ Main crop unless otherwise indicated.


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