GIEWS Update Central America
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Prolonged dry weather associated with the current El Niño event reduces the 2015 output of the main season crops. Aggregate 2015 maize production of the subregion’s four major producing countries is tentatively forecast by FAO to fall 8 percent from the previous year’s already reduced level, but sharper declines are expected in most-affected El Salvador and Honduras. Imports of maize in the 2015/16 marketing year (September/August) are set to increase substantially in the subregion. Maize pr ices remain well above their year-earlier levels, reflecting the unfavourable production prospects and reduced availabilities from the 2014 drought-reduced harvests.