FAO/WFP CROP AND FOOD SUPPLY ASSESSMENT MISSION TO LAO PEOPLE’S DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC - 4 March 1999
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Following reports of an unfavourable food outlook and at the request of the Government, an FAO/WFP Crop and Food Supply Assessment Mission visited Lao PDR from 19th January to 8th February 1999 to review the outcome of the main 1998 paddy crop, forecast the 1999 irrigated crop, and estimate import requirements including food aid for the 1998/99 marketing year. Consultations were held with the relevant Government ministries, and donor, NGO and UN representations in Vientianne. The focus of the fi eldwork was on selected drought-affected areas, Khammoune, Saravan and Savannakhet Provinces, where the team met with Provincial and District officials, NGOs, farmers, village heads, and merchants, and observed the conditions of the off-season paddy crop, which was being transplanted. The 1998/99 rice production is forecast at about 1.77 million tonnes, 22 percent above the average for the previous five years and moderately higher than last year’s, despite localised dry spells and a sharp reduction in plantings of the upland rice crop. The increase in production is mainly attributed to unusually low levels of flood damage, and a major expansion in the area under (irrigated) off-season paddy.