FAO/GIEWS - Foodcrops & Shortages 11/98 - ALBANIA (3 November)
The estimate of the 1998 wheat output remains at 400 000 tonnes, indicating some 300 000 tonnes of imported wheat will be needed in 1998/99 to maintain food consumption levels of this staple equivalent to recent years. Pledges/deliveries of wheat as food aid in the current year already amount to some 27 000 tonnes, mostly from the USDA Commodity Credit Corp.
As of mid-October, Albania is reported to be hosting some 21 000 refugees from the civil unrest in the Kosovo Province of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. WFP and other food supply agencies plan to continue food distribution to refugees in November. WFP will continue to support a bakery project which provides bread on a daily basis to 5 700 refugees in the Durres area.
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