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CROP AND FOOD SUPPLY SITUATION IN BURUNDI - 3 December 1996

Year of publication 1996

Author Trade and Markets Division

Product type Book (stand-alone)

Series title Special Reports and Alerts

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) An FAO Crop and Food Supply Assessment Mission visited Burundi in October 1996 to review the outcome of the second season harvest, forecast the third season production, update the 1996 food supply/demand balance and assess prospects for the 1997 first season crops. In addition to meeting with field staff of the UN agencies, donor countries and NGOs, the Mission attended meetings with National Directors for extension and agriculture and held discussions with provincial agricultural directors. Fur ther, the Mission made field visits to 5 out of the country’s 15 provinces and conducted an aerial survey of the northern and central provinces. The 1996 second foodcrop season started under favourable agroclimatic and improved security conditions. In the northern and northeastern provinces representing some of the most important cereal producing areas, and where security conditions were stable, production was higher than anticipated earlier and normal. However, dry spells in April and May reduced bean production by approximately 30 percent from normal levels in Gitega, Rutana and Makamba provinces. Furthermore, Bubanza, Cibitoké and Karuzi provinces were seriously affected by the civil strife during the season which prevented crop husbandry. Production is estimated to be reduced in these provinces by as much as 50 percent. Based on the results of surveys of the second crop season undertaken earlier and on information provided by provincial directorates, the Mission estimates the 1996 second season foodcrop production at about 1.63 million tons, a drop of some 8 percent from the 1988-93 pre-crisis level and 2 percent lower than in the previous year.

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