FAO/GIEWS - Foodcrops & Shortages 02/99 - BOLIVIA (22 February)
Normal weather conditions resumed from mid-January in the highlands and mountain valleys, as well as in the main producing eastern department of Santa Cruz and south-eastern parts of the country, benefiting the development of the 1999 first season cereal crops to be harvested from March. Harvesting of the important potato crop has already started. A recovery is expected for all cereals from the 1997/98 poor outputs, when the crops were severely affected by El Niņo adverse weather.
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