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Weather conditions are conducive to an improvement in food availability

Current estimates put this year’s production figure, expressed in grain equivalents, 10 percent below the figure for last year, which was considered a good crop year. Markets are beginning to receive large quantities of local crops. Late planted crops in most parts of the country have done well. Continuing rainfall activity is helping to spur crop growth and development in rice-growing plain areas and wet mountain areas. Harvests (of sorghum and pigeon pea crops) are expected to begin in November and to continue until sometime in or around March of next year.