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UN:
HARVEST PROSPECTS IMPROVE SIGNIFICANTLY IN PARTS OF WEST AFRICA AFTER
AUGUST RAINS - UN: 13/09/2007 (MaximsNews.com, U.N.) |
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- 13 September 2007 –Harvest
prospects have improved significantly in parts of Africa’s Sahel region
bordering the Sahara with good rains falling in August after below-normal levels
in June and July, according
to an update issued today by the United Nations Food and Agriculture
Organization (FAO).
August
rainfall over the main producing areas reconstituted soil water reserves,
providing relief to stressed crops and improving crop prospects in most
countries.
But
heavy rains and floods caused considerable human casualties and damage to crops
in several countries, notably Burkina Faso, Chad, Gambia, Mali, Mauritania,
Niger and Senegal.
In the
areas affected by earlier dry conditions, yield potential will be reduced and
late plantings or replanting will need rains late in the season to cover their
entire growing cycle. Cape Verde is the only country where persistent dry
conditions continued to be experienced in most producing areas through late
August.
From
West to East, crop prospects are unfavourable in Cape Verde due to delayed
rains. In Gambia, Guinea-Bissau and Mauritania satellite imagery indicates that
increased precipitation in August benefited crops and pastures but good rains
need to continue through October to allow them to reach full maturity.
In Chad,
Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger harvest prospects improved significantly after the
scant rains of June. Satellite imagery for early September indicates that good
rains continued to fall over most of the Sahel region.
The food
supply remains generally satisfactory in most parts of the sub-region, but
thousands of people have been made homeless by the floods and are in urgent need
of food and non-food aid.
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