The harvest outlook remains satisfactory and the target is to equal or improve last year’s record 1.7 million tonnes. Grain production has increased rapidly in the past years to the extent that the country reportedly has an exportable surplus. GDP growth has resumed but the transition has been difficult and most of the population continues to suffer economic impoverishment. Twenty percent of the population lives below the poverty line and another 62 percent is classified as being on the verge of poverty.