FAO/GIEWS - Foodcrops & Shortages 11/99 - Chad
Harvest prospects are favourable, reflecting
above-normal rains in August and September. Pastures are abundant and the
pest situation remained mostly calm. A joint FAO/CILSS Crop Assessment
Mission from 18 to 22 October estimated 1999 cereal production at 1 153
294 tonnes (rice in paddy equivalent), which is 15 percent below the 1998
record but 9 percent above the five-year average. The overall food supply
situation is satisfactory. However, impassable roads due to heavy rains
in recent months have affected market supply. Prices of cereals decreased
in rural areas as producers sold their stocks before the harvest. WFP distributed
1 337 tonnes of food in deficit zones (Mayo- Kebbi, Tandjilé, Logone occidental
and Logone oriental) and 640 tonnes as emergency relief to refugees in
Adré in the east.