FAO/GIEWS - Foodcrops & Shortages 06/99 - YEMEN (5 June)
Total cereal output in 1999 is forecast at 748 000 tonnes, about 10 percent below last year’s bumper crop but about average.
Isolated adults of Desert Locusts may persist on the northern Red Sea coastal plains near the Saudi Arabian border and breed if additional rains fall.
Imports of cereals in 1999 - mainly wheat - are estimated at some 2.7 million tonnes.
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