JRC MARS Bulletin - Global outlook - Crop monitoring European neighbourhood - Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and Egypt, February 2024
Persistent drought hampered crops in the western and central Maghreb
The February edition of the JRC MARS Bulletin - Global outlook for North Africa – highlighted in the western countries of North Africa a cereal yield potential which have been severely affected by drought. In particular, well-below-average crop biomass accumulation was observed in most of the main cereal-growing regions of Morocco and the north-western and central regions of Algeria, and a marked delay in winter crop sowing was recorded in Algeria, Tunisia and western Libya.
Rainfall events in December and January triggered a steep recovery during the vegetative phase in eastern Algeria and Tunisia while in Libya, at the country level, the positive yield expectations in Cyrenaica are expected to compensate for the below-average expectations in Tripolitania. Finally, favourable growing conditions have prevailed in the main cereal-producing regions of Egypt.
MANFRON Giacinto;
VAN DEN BERG Maurits;
NISINI SCACCHIAFICHI Luigi;
PANARELLO Lorenzo;
VAN DEN BERG Maurits;
MANFRON Giacinto;
2024-02-26
Publications Office of the European Union
JRC136669
2600-2817 (online),
OP KJ-BQ-24-001-EN-N (online),
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC136669,
10.2760/269233 (online),
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