FAO/GIEWS: Food supply situation and crop prospects in sub-Saha 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 )

FAO/GIEWS: Food supply situation and crop prospects in sub-Saha

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)

Sub-Region/ Country	Marketing year	1996 Cereal production		Position for 1996/97
				Cereal import require ments 2/	Anticipated commercial imports	Food aid requirements			Cereal import position
						Food aid requirements			Commercial imports already made or contracted	Food aid
		Total	As % of average of previous 5 years			Total		of which exceptional	Commercial imports already made or contracted	Pledges	of which received so far	Uncov. Food aid require ments
Eastern Africa		7 867	112	1 303	1 200	103		19	-	28	-	78
Kenya	Oct./Sept.	3 051	99	1 050	990	60		-	-	19	-	41
Somalia	Sept./Aug.	348	133	203	160	43		19	-	6	-	37
Tanzania	June/May	4 468	122	50	50	-		-	-	3	-
Southern Africa		24 319	135	2 455	1 921	534		154	531	396	170	158
Angola	April/March	508	149	442	200	242		129	14	134	74	108
Botswana	April/March	81	213	234	234	-		-	-	1	1
Lesotho	April/March	242	172	149	99	50		-	18	41	41	9
Madagascar	April/March	1 850	102	141	115	26		-	-	23	3	3
Malawi	April/March	2 026	139	95	45	50		-	50	51	6
Mozambique	April/March	1 328	197	300	140	160		25	17	122	35	38
Namibia	May/April	86	106	108	108	-		-	16	-	-
South Africa	May/April	13 492	129	807	807	-		-	150	-	-
Swaziland	May/April	110	122	64	58	6		-	21	6	6
Zambia	May/April	1 565	139	50	50	-		-	73	11	4
Zimbabwe	April/March	3 031	172	65	65	-		-	172	7	-
Western Africa		25 064	117	1 875	1 760	115		-	150	46	3	69
*Coastal countries*		25 064	117	1 875	1 760	115		-	150	46	3	69
Côte d'Ivoire	July/June	1 101	104	580	530	50		-	-	35	3	15
Ghana	Oct./Sept.	1 604	107	285	220	65		-	-	11	-	54
Nigeria	July/June	22 359	119	1 010	1 010	-		-	150	-	-	-
Central Africa		1 202	108	482	473	9		-	-	6	-	7
Cameroon	July/June	1 070	109	340	335	5		-	-	-	-	5
Cent.Afr. Rep.	Sept./Aug.	105	101	34	32	2		-	-	-	-	2
Congo	July/June	27	108	108	106	2		-	-	6	-
TOTAL		58 452	123	6 115	5 354	761		173	681	476	173	312

1/ Including rice in milled equivalent.
2/ Excluding re-exports.