The food and agriculture situation in Africa: prepared by the Food and Agriculture Organization

Abstract

The setback to agricultural production in 1961/62 was caused chiefly by droughts and pest damage, in some of the countries north of the Sahara and there is every indication that the rise in the continent’s production has been resumed during the current 1962/63 season. For export earnings, however, no such rapid recovery is in sight. Prices of agricultural exports as a whole have been more stable during the first nine months of, 1962, but there are still no signs of a general improvement.