FAO/GIEWS - Foodcrops & Shortages 11/98 - MALAWI* (25 November)
Light rains in recent weeks have prompted early plantings of the cereal crop to be harvested from April 1999. Reflecting favourable weather cereal production in 1998, mainly maize, increased by some 13 percent to an above-average level of 1.88 million tonnes.
As a result, the food supply situation in the current 1998/99 marketing year has improved substantially. People living in areas of localized food deficit in the north, where excessive rains resulted in flooding with loss of crops, continue to be assisted under a Government programme sustained by aid agencies.
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