FAO/WFP CROP AND FOOD SUPPLY ASSESSMENT MISSION TO THE UN-ADMINISTERED PROVINCE OF KOSOVO - 24 July 2000
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An FAO/WFP Crop and Food Supply Assessment Mission (CFSAM) visited the UN-Administered Province of Kosovo (Kosovo) between June 14 and June 28 to: (i) assess prospects for crop production in 2000; (ii) review overall food supply situation and prospects and the need for further food aid intervention during the 2000/2001 marketing year and (iii) re-examine the degree of vulnerability and ways to improve future food aid targeting. The Mission's findings are based on discussions with UN and bilatera l agencies, NGOs and municipal staff and local key informants, viz. farmers, millers and traders during field trips to 27 of the 30 municipalities in Kosovo. The Mission found that the past twelve months, since the end of the spring 1999 crisis, have witnessed considerable progress in the rehabilitation of agriculture in Kosovo and sharp recovery in agricultural production, reflecting the considerable will and resourcefulness of farmers to re-establish their activities as well as timely as sistance from the international community. The Mission forecasts wheat production in 2000 at about 231 000 tonnes, from a harvested area of 86 600 hectares. This is more than double the estimate of last year's crop, but only 60 percent of the level of production reported to have been achieved in 1989 before the decline in the agricultural sector.