FAO: East Africa: poor prospects for 2008 cereal crops in several countries
Harvesting of the 2008 main season cereal crops is under way or soon to start in Somalia, Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya, and in Ethiopia, the harvest of the secondary “belg” crop is in progress.
Although the important March-May rains improved towards the end of the period, cumulative totals remain below normal in large areas of Ethiopia, Somalia, parts of western Kenya and in the Karamoja region of Uganda. Thus, crop prospects in these countries remain generally poor.
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