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In the last week on October, mostly dry weather in northern parts favoured rice harvesting of the 10th month rice crop which accounts for around 25 percent of aggregate production. The 10th month crop is normally planted around July/August…

As part of a wider phenomenon, which affected neighbouring countries in the region, floods also damaged various areas of Laos. Overall, seven central and southern provinces were flooded in August resulting in serious damage to crops and, to a…

Land preparation for main season production will commence in October, whilst planting will be undertaken in the months between November and January. Last year, despite serious disruption to agriculture, marketing and the economy, following civil disturbances, output of the main…

After two relatively stable agricultural years in 1998 and 1999, which saw moderate recovery in domestic food production following earlier disasters in 1995, 1996 and 1997, food production in 2000 has again slumped. This has been due to a…

Following around a 4 percent reduction in area planted and lower yields this year, paddy production is forecast at around 7 million tonnes, some 8 percent lower than last year. Output, however, will remain some 5 percent above average…

Earlier in the year, heavy monsoon rains, floods and landslides, killed a number of people and displaced several thousand in the worst affected areas in central parts of the country. Crops, mainly rice, infrastructure and communication systems were also…

Introduction Afghanistan has been hit by a serious drought as a consequence of low rainfall and snow melt over the winter of 1999/2000. The impact of this has been well documented by the WFP/FAO crop assessment of…

This paper is an outcome of a workshop hosted in Islamabad at UNHCS/ HABITAT on 20 September 2000. The initiative of the exercise emerged during the ordinary meeting of the Sectoral Working Group on drinking water held…

(Circulated only for countries where foodcrops or supply situation conditions give rise to concern) A combination of heavy monsoon rains, tropical storms, typhoons and floods have seriously affected a number of countries in Asia including China, India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Cambodia, Thailand,…

The foreign operations appropriations bill for FY 2001 is currently being acted on by the Senate and will soon go to a conference committee. Within this bill is funding for the Migration and Refugee Affairs (MRA) account. From the…