FAO/WFP CROP AND FOOD SUPPLY ASSESSMENT MISSION TO BANGLADESH - 13 November 1998
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During the first ten days of July 1998, the first warnings of possible floods were received from Bangladesh. As a result of exceptionally heavy rains in the basin areas of the rivers Brahmaputra, Ganges and Meghna, water levels were rising rapidly in the downstream flood plain of Bangladesh. During the next two months three major floods occurred and about 50 percent of the country was under water for periods of up to 67 days, at depths of up to three metres. The Aus rice crop harvest was interru pted, the planting of Aman crops was delayed and, in some areas, was never completed. Devastation was caused, not only to cropped areas, but also to rural people, their homes and their livestock. When the water receded in late September and some degree of normal communication was restored, it was clearly essential to assess the impact of the floods on food production and incomes in this low-income food-deficit country. An FAO/WFP mission was rapidly dispatched to assess the food supply situation and forecast food production, import requirements and food aid needs for 1998/99.