ASIA: Most countries expect good harvests, but in China cereal production is estimated to be 7.5 percent below average. Production is also below normal in Pakistan and Sri Lanka. In DPR Korea, emergency food supplies will be exhausted by July 2002, if new pledges are not forthcoming. In Mongolia, pastoralists have suffered yet another harsh winter. In Afghanistan, civil strife, successive years of drought and recent devastating earthquakes have exposed millions of people to extreme hardship. The food situation in the West Bank and Gaza Strip has deteriorated alarmingly as a result of a sharp escalation in military operations.