SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO (3 June)
Aggregate cereal harvest is seen to drop by more than 400 000 tonnes, compared with last year’s good harvest estimated at about 8.2 million tonnes. Following a relatively cold winter and a late spring, wheat harvest is estimated at 2 million tonnes compared with 2.24 million tonnes in 2002. Whereas maize harvest is forecast at about 5 million tonnes, which is some 500 000 tonnes down on last year’s harvest. The maize estimates are tentative and much depends on summer precipitation and floods.
WFP is currently assisting some 96 844 refugees in Serbia and Montenegro, while ICRC is currently assisting some 59 000 internally displaced persons (IDP).