Chad

Although rain-fed cereal harvests in Chad's Sahelian zone are expected to be smaller than the FAO/CILSS pre-harvest estimate of 600,000 mt, FEWS says, they are expected to be near average. It says the country's Action Committee for Food Security and Crisis Management (CASAGC) reported a decrease in harvests toward the end of the season because of pest attacks in northern Batha and Biltine. Moreover, excess moisture hampered short-cycle millet growth in Kanem. In Chad's Sudanian zone, rain-fed floods damaged crops in October 1999. In the Maro and Sahr rural sub-prefectures, residents are experiencing problems, especially around Danamadji where crops were "almost completely destroyed". However, food production was exceptional in the unflooded parts of the Sudanian zone.