Source: Food and Agriculture Organization
Country: Cameroon, Central African Republic, Nigeria
FOOD SECURITY SNAPSHOT
- Favourable weather conditions at the start of the 2014 cropping season
- Improved 2013 cereal production
- Inflation forecast to remain low in 2014
- A large number of refugees from Central African Republic and Nigeria arrived in northern and eastern regions straining the already limited available resources
Good prospects for current crops
The main season maize crops will be harvested from June in the bimodal centre and south. Satellite-based information and analysis indicate that crop growing conditions from March to the second dekad of May 2014 have been generally favourable in most regions following well-distributed rainfall. In some areas, early season dryness in March was followed by adequate rains in April and May, which improved moisture conditions.
In the unimodal north, where sorghum and millet are predominantly grown, crops are being sown under favourable weather conditions, for harvest from October.
