FAO/GIEWS - Foodcrops & Shortages 06/01 - COTE D'IVOIRE (11 June)
Following the start of rains in late February, planting of the first maize crop is underway. Abundant precipitation covered the entire country during April and May, benefiting planting and emergence of millet and sorghum crops in the north.
Following an above-average cereal harvest in 2000, the overall food supply situation is satisfactory. Some 110 000 Liberian refugees and 2 000 Sierra Leoneans remain in the west.