FAO/GIEWS - Foodcrops & Shortages 09/98 - MOZAMBIQUE (3 September)
The 1998 production of cereals is estimated at 1.69 million tonnes, an increase of some 10 percent on last year's aboveaverage crop of 1.53 million tonnes. The increase is attributed to both increased area planted and harvested and increased yields for all cereals, particularly in the northern and central provinces. Production of cassava, groundnuts and beans is also estimated to have increased significantly.
Following several years of steady increase in food production and a good 1998 harvest, the overall food supply position is expected to improve further in the current marketing year. The country, which received an average of 600 000 tonnes of food aid in the 1991-94 period, will need virtually no food aid in 1998/99, except in localised areas where floods and drought caused some crop losses.
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