Kabul, 12 October 2005
 

Agriculture Prospects Report
(August/September 2005)

 

AFGHANISTAN
Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Husbandry and Food
FAAHM
Food, Agriculture and Animal Husbandry
Information Management and Policy Unit
Food and Agriculture Organization
of the United Nations

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This report supersedes Agriculture Prospects Report (APR) released by MAAHF on 2 August 2005 . The purpose of APR is to: (a) provide the estimates of annual crop area and production, (b) quantify the cereal surplus or deficit, (c) identify critical areas needing emergency interventions and/or development initiatives, and (d) present retail market prices of agricultural commodities and their analysis. The APR data are mostly presented at the provincial levels.

The present issue is the fourth in the series of bi-monthly APR. The first APR was released in early-March 2005. It provided preliminary forecasts of this year's wheat and rice production. The ensuing two issues produced in mid-May and early-August provided national and provincial data on cereal supply, demand and surplus/deficit.

The primary sources of information for APR are provincial agriculture offices. Radio and telephone are means of communication used for more frequent contacts with them. Information and data provided by other sources (e.g. technical departments in MAAHF, FAO, WFP, USGS Agro-met project) are also used.

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